ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,413, issued on March 17, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Anti-microbial surfaces and related methods" was invented by Bong June Zhang (Newton, Mass.) and Miguel Galvez (Danvers, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, an anti-microbial composition (e.g., an anti-microbial coating), and related methods, are generally described. The anti-microbial composition may be used to kill, inhibit growth, mitigate, and/or inhibit retention of one or more microbes and/or bacteria. The anti-microbial properties of the composition may be provided by a microbial inhibition material, which co...