US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Feb. 17 for "Aqueous zinc oral care compositions with fluoride" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,425, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Aqueous zinc oral care compositions with fluoride" was invented by Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minn.), Tiffany T. Ton (Woodbury, Minn.) and Richard P. Rusin (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental composition is described that includes a homogenous solution having a stabilized zinc complex with amine-containing ligands and a source of fluoride anions. Also described are methods for treating or preventing caries activity at a tooth surface employing the dental composition, and kits re the same."

The patent was filed on Dec....