US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on April 21 for "Antimicrobial plastics and methods of preparing the same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,901, issued on April 21, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Antimicrobial plastics and methods of preparing the same" was invented by Muhammad Rabnawaz (East Lansing, Mich.) and Saleh Alkarri (Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing the antimicrobial plastic includes contacting a non-leachable antimicrobial agent to a surface of a plastic article to form the antimicrobial plastic. In certain variations, the contacting includes applying a precursor antimicrobial layer including non-leachable antimicrobial agents to a surface of a plastic article to form ...