US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Oct. 7 for "Microstructured surface with increased microorganism removal when cleaned, articles and methods" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,427, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Microstructured surface with increased microorganism removal when cleaned, articles and methods" was invented by Jodi L. Connell (St. Paul, Minn.), Raymond P. Johnston (Lake Elmo, Minn.), John J. Sullivan (Hudson, Wis.), Karl J. L. Geisler (St. Paul, Minn.), Vivian W. Jones (Woodbury, Minn.), Gordon A. Kuhnley (St. Paul, Minn.), Patrick G. Zimmerman (Mendota Heights, Minn.), Bradley W. Eaton (Woodbury, Minn.), Kurt J. Halverson (St. Paul, Minn.), Brian W. Lueck (Houlton, Wis.), Alexander C. Eldredge (Mahtomedi, Minn.) and Hyacinth L. Lechuga (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstrac...