US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on June 3 for "Surfaces and coating compositions having antifouling, antithrombotic, and antibacterial properties and methods of making" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,828, issued on June 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Athens, Ga.).

"Surfaces and coating compositions having antifouling, antithrombotic, and antibacterial properties and methods of making" was invented by Jason J. Locklin (Bogart, Ga.), Qiaohong Liu (Athens, Ga.), Priyadarshini Singha (Athens, Ga.), Hitesh Handa (Athens, Ga.), Jitendra Pant (Athens, Ga.), Marcus J. Goudie (Athens, Ga.) and Sean P. Hopkins (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coating compositions, coated articles including the coating compositions, and methods of making the coating compositions and coated articles are provided....