US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Dec. 2 for "Transmission prevention of viruses with application of antiseptic composition" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,140, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Transmission prevention of viruses with application of antiseptic composition" was invented by Kevin D. Landgrebe (Woodbury, Minn.), Ranjani V. Parthasarathy (Woodbury, Minn.) and Katie F. Wlaschin (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method of preventing transmission of an enveloped RNA virus. The method includes applying to a mucosal tissue of a first mammalian subject not substantially colonized by the enveloped RNA virus an effective amount of an antiseptic composition or a phar...