ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,443, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Original G B.V. (Hoogezand, Netherlands).

"Quenched coating" was invented by Jurjen Gazendam (Hoogezand, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an object surface coating comprising one or more polymers and a peptide covalently linked to at least one of said one or more polymers, said peptide comprising a) a first cleavage site, wherein said first cleavage site is cleaved by a first compound specifically provided by a microbe belonging to a first group consisting of a limited number of microbial strains, species or genera, and not cleaved by any compound provided by any microbe ...