Urine preservative

US6261844A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · US

Inventors

• Scott Smith · League City, US
• Jeannie L. Nillen · Houston, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 1998
• Grant date: Jul 17, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/108331
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed is CPG, a combination of a chlorhexidine salt (such as chlorhexidine digluconate, chlorhexidine diacetate, or chlorhexidine dichloride) and n-propyl gallate that can be used at ambient temperatures as a urine preservative.