ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,567, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Pan-Micro Bioscience Inc. (Atherton, Calif.).

"Anti-microbial disinfectant and methods of use and production thereof" was invented by Gilbert R. Gonzales (Tucson, Ariz.), Immanuel Thangaraj (Atherton, Calif.), Nigel R. Stevenson (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Bruce K. Patterson (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Cynthia Doerr (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acid solution and method of making an acid solution are provided. The method includes exposing a reactant solution to an energy beam to form the acid solution, the reactant solution includes water and a salt. The salt is selected from a group consist...