ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,581, issued on June 23, was assigned to MedCu Technologies Ltd. (Herzliya, Israel).
"Method for manufacturing a copper-containing polyurethane foam" was invented by Danny Lustiger (Herzliya, Israel) and Gadi Borkow (Givaton, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method described in the present invention provides antimicrobial copper-containing polyurethane foams by embedding microparticles of metallic copper (Cu), cuprous oxide (Cu2O), cupric oxide (CuO), or cuprous iodide (CuI), or combinations thereof, into polyurethane foams, wherein said microparticles are homogenously distributed throughout the formed polymeric m...