US Patent Issued to NBC MESHTEC on Sept. 1 for "Antimicrobial/antiviral composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,346, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NBC MESHTEC INC. (Tokyo).

"Antimicrobial/antiviral composition" was invented by Masako Takino (Tokyo), Shinji Kurahashi (Tokyo), Yoshie Fujimori (Tokyo), Nobukazu Motojima (Tokyo) and Tsuruo Nakayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an antimicrobial/antiviral composition having an excellent immediate effect while the content of monovalent copper compound is low.The antimicrobial/antiviral composition includes: a resin; an antimicrobial/antiviral agent containing monovalent copper compound microparticles coated with a dispersant; and a hydrophilic compound that is dispersed in th...