Antimicrobial elastomeric articles

Patent Number: 9386772

Patent Date: 2016-07-12

Patent type: utility

The present invention relates generally to methods of preparing antimicrobial elastomeric articles that include an elastomeric article having an antimicrobial coating provided thereon. The antimicrobial elastomeric articles exhibit enhanced ability to reduce or eliminate microbes that come in contact with the article. Certain aspects of the invention are further directed to methods of packaging the antimicrobial elastomeric articles, where the packaged antimicrobial articles exhibit antimicrobial effectiveness for an extended period of time as compared to unpackaged antimicrobial articles. Antimicrobial elastomeric articles and packaged antimicrobial elastomeric articles prepared in accordance with the methods of the present invention are also provided.

Inventors

First Name Last Name City State Country
Shiping Wang - - -
Nicholas Krogman - - -
Walt Isaac - - -
Katia Petrov - - -

IPCs

Section Class Sub Class Group Sub Group
A 61 K 9 70
A 01 N 47 44
A 61 L 29 08
A 61 L 29 16
A 61 L 31 10
A 61 L 31 16
A 61 B 19 04
A 01 N 25 10
A 01 N 25 34
A 61 B 17 00

Assignee

Organization First Name Last Name City State Country
Allegiance Corporation - - - - -