US Patent Issued to Glass Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Antimicrobial glass compositions, glasses and polymeric articles incorporating the same" (New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,131, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Glass Technologies Ltd. (Central, Hong Kong).

"Antimicrobial glass compositions, glasses and polymeric articles incorporating the same" was invented by Dana Craig Bookbinder (Corning, N.Y.), Gary Stephen Calabrese (Elmira, N.Y.), Timothy Michael Gross (Painted Post, N.Y.), Dayue Jiang (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Jianguo Wang (Cape Coral, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles include a glass, including leachable plurality of Cu1+ ions, a degradable phase, and a cuprite phase disposed within the degradable phase. The cuprite phase is disposed within the degradable phase. In aspects, the degrada...