Patent Issued for Disinfecting drain traps system (USPTO 11111657)

摘要

2021 SEP 23 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - A patent by the inventor Goldberg, Mitchell K. (Westmount, CA), filed on April 11, 2019, was published online on September 7, 2021, according to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents. Patent number 11111657 is assigned to The Gold Kids Trust (Dorval, Canada). The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: "BACKGROUND INFORMATION "Many recent reports have found multidrug resistant bacteria forming biofilms in hospital sink drainpipes, putting them in close proximity to vulnerable patients. Initially, the bacteria colonize the elbows of the drain pipes. From there, the colonies grow slowly towards the sink strainers at the rate of roughly one inch per day (Kotay et al., Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 24 Feb. 2017, doi: 10.1128/AEM.03327-16), incorporated herein in its entirety by reference. Given the distance in typical hospital sinks of elbows below the sink bowls, it frequently takes a week for the colonies to reach the sink strainers. It is well understood that bacteria splatter around the sink, and even onto the counters surrounding the sink. A risk of bacterial contamination occurs while the water is running into the drain, thereby, transmitting creating an airborne bacterial transmission. Bacterial transmission can even occur via connections in wastewater plumbing to neighboring sinks.