ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,146, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZHEJIANG HAILIANG Co. LTD. (Zhuji, China) and Zhejiang Copper Processing Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Zhuji, China).

"Corrosion-resistant antibacterial copper alloy, and preparation process and application for the same" was invented by Gaolei Xu (Zhuji, China), Jingbo Gao (Zhuji, China), Zhen Zhang (Zhuji, China), Zhen Fan (Zhuji, China), Jianguo Cao (Zhuji, China), Luming Feng (Zhuji, China), Xingdong Wang (Zhuji, China) and Junli Xu (Zhuji, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corrosion-resistant antibacterial copper alloy includes components having the following contents: B: 0.0035-0.055 w...