US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on May 13 for "Antimicrobial compositions with 1,2-alkanediols" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,923, issued on May 13, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Antimicrobial compositions with 1,2-alkanediols" was invented by Rajan B. Bodkhe (Woodbury, Minn.), Ranjani V. Parthasarathy (Woodbury, Minn.), Matthew T. Scholz (Woodbury, Minn.), Naimul Karim (Maplewood, Minn.), Petra L. Kohler Riedi (Minneapolis) and Joseph J. Stoffel (Hastings, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions including a quaternary amine antiseptic component having a concentration of at least about 0.04% by weight; a poly carboxylic acid chelator having a concentration of at least about 0.05 M and/or an alphahydroxy...