US Patent Issued to Sterilex on Sept. 29 for "Ambient moisture-activated hard surface treatment powder comprising a carbonate/persalt/sulfonium or phosphonium salt combination" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,417, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sterilex LLC (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Ambient moisture-activated hard surface treatment powder comprising a carbonate/persalt/sulfonium or phosphonium salt combination" was invented by Edward Fu (Hunt Valley, Md.), Mark Wozniak (Hunt Valley, Md.) and Chris Bergstrom (Hunt Valley, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ambient moisture-activatable surface treatment powders containing persalt, positively charged phase transfer agent and alkaline pH buffering may be activatable without the addition of liquid. Some ambient moisture-activatable surface treatment powders are substantially free of bleach ac...