US Patent Issued to The United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, The Texas A&M University System on Sept. 29 for "Ferrate compositions for surface disinfection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,777, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington) and The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Ferrate compositions for surface disinfection" was invented by Virender K. Sharma (College Station, Texas) and Chetan Jinadatha (Belton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for disinfecting a surface are provided which include contacting a surface with a solution comprising Fe(VI)O42-, thereby disinfecting the surfaces. In some cases, the surface to be contacted with the solution is in a space suitable for human occupancy and th...