ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,179, issued on March 24, was assigned to BMG (British Medical Group) Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Antimicrobial dyes for facemasks" was invented by Mark Wilkinson (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Paul Wight (Manchester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing process for printing with ink an image on a glove formed by a dipping process, wherein the image is first printed on a former and transferred to the glove during dipping."
The patent was filed on July 1, 2020, under Application No. 17/624,141.
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