US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Feb. 24 for "Oral articles and methods of use" (Minnesota, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,305, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Oral articles and methods of use" was invented by Amanda C. Engler (Woodbury, Minn.), Katie F. Wlaschin (St. Paul, Minn.), Hannah C. Cohen (St. Paul, Minn.), Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minn.), Tiffany T. Ton (Woodbury, Minn.), Jie Yang (Woodbury, Minn.), Joel D. Oxman (Minneapolis) and Emily M. Wollmuth (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles that include from 20 wt-% to 45 wt-% of one or more plant based oils based on the total weight of the article; from 50 wt-% to 70 wt-% of one or more polymer film formers based on the to...