US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Nov. 11 for "Curable oral care composition containing silver and fluoride" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,558, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Curable oral care composition containing silver and fluoride" was invented by Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minn.), Richard P. Rusin (Woodbury, Minn.), Jie J. Liu (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Tiffany T. Ton (Woodbury, Minn.), Carola A. Carrera Vidal (Plymouth, Minn.) and Joel D. Oxman (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental composition including a silver-fluoride composition and a curable resin composition is described. Also described are methods for repairing a tooth surface employing the dental composition, and kits re same."

The p...