US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on March 3 for "Method for functionalizing a surface, product having a surface functionalized according to said method, and uses thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,175, issued on March 3, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Method for functionalizing a surface, product having a surface functionalized according to said method, and uses thereof" was invented by Nenad Gajovic-Eichelmann (Berlin), Marina Neumann (Potsdam, Germany) and Frank Bier (Potsdam, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method functionalizes a surface, wherein a polyphenol layer is formed on the surface by applying a polyphenol compound, and the surface is subsequently functionalized by binding a functional molecule to the polyphenol layer. In addition, the polyph...