US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 24 for "High efficacy Cu-based anti-microbial films and substrates and methods of making the same" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,001, issued on March 24, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"High efficacy Cu-based anti-microbial films and substrates and methods of making the same" was invented by Andrew Charles Antony (Ithaca, N.Y.), Theresa Chang (Painted Post, N.Y.), Sushmit Sunil Kumar Goyal (Painted Post, N.Y.), Shrisudersan Jayaraman (Horseheads, N.Y.), Rui Qi (New York), Vinalia Tjong (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Shu Yuan (Horseheads, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an antimicrobial film, including providing a substrate with a polymer coating disposed thereon, the polymer coating including: an antimicrobial material, an inn...