ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,823, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Antimicrobial composition" was invented by Ying Zhang (Woodbury, Minn.), Robert A. Asmus (Hudson, Wis.), Zhicheng Tian (Woodbury, Minn.), Kheng Vang (St. Paul, Minn.), James P. Dizio (St. Paul, Minn.), Patrick J. Parks (Mendota Heights, Minn.) and Brian E. Spiewak (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antimicrobial compositions containing an antimicrobial agent, such as an octenidine salt, a solubilizer, such as a glycol, and a cidatrope, such as a C8-C26 alcohol, an ether, an amide, an ester, and combinations the...