ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,834, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Silver silicalite zeolite nanomaterials for reducing Candida auris biofilms" was invented by Hanan A. Aldossary (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Suriya Rehman (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), B. Rabindran Jermy (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Sayed Abdulazeez (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), J. Francis Borgio (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ebtesam Abdullah Al-Suhaimi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing an amount of a Candida auris biofilm on a surface, including, contacting a composition with the surface, where the composition reduc...