ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,193, issued on May 5, was assigned to Shanghai Prosheldor Sci. & Tech. Co. Ltd (Shanghai).

"Method for preparing antimicrobial treatment agent for textile" was invented by Chanjuan Jiang (Shanghai) and Haibin Gu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for preparing an antimicrobial treatment agent for textiles, including steps of: (S1) providing substances of: (a) divalent copper ion salt; (b) ammonia water or ammonium salt; (c) an inorganic alkaline aqueous solution; (d) an organic substance of alcohols or carbohydrates containing only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen elements; (e) water; and (S2) m...