ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,816, issued on July 15.
"Water treatment device" was invented by Timothy John Fisher (Cranbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disinfection device including a pipe with a taper, inlet, and outlet; an ultraviolet laser; a beam steering device and a transparent layer. The laser, located at a smaller diameter end of the pipe, projects a laser beam towards a larger diameter end of the pipe. The laser beam projects through and/or off the beam steering device and through the transparent layer at a plurality of angles in a cycle. The beam steering device reflects, refracts and/or deflects the laser beam at angles such that a l...