ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,731, issued on March 24, was assigned to BIOMONETA RESEARCH PVT LTD (Bangalore, India).

"Method to decontaminate solid surface" was invented by Arindam Ghatak (Bangalore, India), Srividya Janani Venkatraman (Bangalore, India), Santanu Datta (Bangalore, India), Sujit Kumar Biswas (Bangalore, India), Kadambi Sarangapani Ramanujan (Bangalore, India), Debosmita Kundu (Bangalore, India) and Sujith Raju (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant disclosure relates to microbial decontamination of solid surfaces. The disclosure provides method for reducing or eliminating microbes from a solid surface by employing a combina...