ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,968, issued on Oct. 7.
"Sterilizing apparatus and sterilizing method" was invented by Katsunori Suetsugu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilization apparatus includes a fanner that has an inlet through which air is inhaled and an outlet from which the air is blown out and blows out a spiral air current from the outlet, an atomizer that sprays a chemical solution for sterilization into the air to be blown out from the outlet, into the spiral air current blown out from the outlet, or on a sterilization target, and a light emitter that emits light in the direction in which the spiral air current is blown out from the outlet."...