US Patent Issued to SPOTLESS MATERIALS on April 22 for "Formulations and processes to generate repellent surfaces on medical devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,175, issued on April 22, was assigned to SPOTLESS MATERIALS INC. (State College, Pa.).

"Formulations and processes to generate repellent surfaces on medical devices" was invented by Nan Sun (State College, Pa.) and Birgitt Boschitsch (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "All-in-one formulations for preparing repellent coatings on surfaces of substrates include (i) one or more reactive components that can form a bonded layer on a surface in which the bonded layer comprises an array of compound each compound having one end bound to a surface and an opposite end extending away from the surface; (ii) an optional catalyst; (ii...