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US 9,750,244 B2Granted
Antimicrobially active compositions
AssigneesXy, LLC, CHD Bioscience, Inc.
InventorsEdwin Dean Neas, Jerald Edward Kuiken, John Louis Schenk, Thomas Boyd Gilligan
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Abstract
Compositions (3) and methods of using such compositions (3) to condition, clean, or disinfect the flow path of a conduit (8) of a microfluidic devices (16), such as flow cytometers or liquid chromatographs.
Claims7
An antimicrobial composition, comprising:
- an alcohol about 10% to about 55% by volume selected from the group consisting of methanol, ethanol, N-propanol, isopropanol, 2-butanol, n-butanol and isobutanol;
- a ketone about 2% to about 10% by volume selected from the group consisting of acetone, 2-butanone, cyclohexanone, 2-pentanone, 3-pentanone, 2-hexanone, 3-hexanone, methyl isobutyl ketone, cyclobutanone, and cyclopentanone, said alcohol and said ketone being the only effective antimicrobially active components in said antimicrobial composition;
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- an inactive agent comprising water, wherein said alcohol and said ketone remain miscible in said water, and wherein said alcohol and said ketone combined in amounts which kill viable microorganisms by greater than 2-log10 within a time period of about five minutes to about thirty minutes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.