US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Aug. 25 for "Aqueous oral care iodide-containing compositions, methods, and kits" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,656, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Aqueous oral care iodide-containing compositions, methods, and kits" was invented by Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minn.), Ta-Hua Yu (Woodbury, Minn.), Joel D. Oxman (Minneapolis) and Richard P. Rusin (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous oral care one-part composition (e.g., solution), a kit that includes such composition (e.g., solution), and methods (e.g., a method of providing fluoride to a patient's tooth surface), wherein the oral care composition (e.g., solution) includes: silver cations; iodide anions; fluoride anions...