US Patent Issued to ZENTEK on May 5 for "Graphene-silver nanocomposites and uses for same as an antimicrobial composition" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,206, issued on May 5, was assigned to ZENTEK LTD. (Guelph, Canada).

"Graphene-silver nanocomposites and uses for same as an antimicrobial composition" was invented by Seyyedarash Haddadi (Ontario, Canada), Colin Van Der Kuur (Kelowna, Canada), Joseph Korkis (Burlington, Canada) and Deepak Sridhar (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to antimicrobial compositions comprising graphene-silver cation nanocomposites and uses for same as an antimicrobial agent. The antimicrobial agent is particularly useful as a disinfectant or for use as a coating to confer antimicrobial activity to a substrate. The an...