ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,161, issued on April 22, was assigned to ABL IP HOLDING LLC (Conyers, Ga.).

"Luminaire with disinfection light exposure and dosage limit control protocol and sensor integration with height controller" was invented by Yan Rodriguez (Suwanee, Ga.), Jack C. Rains Jr. (Sarasota, Fla.) and David P. Ramer (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminaire includes a luminaire control circuit and a disinfection light source to emit a disinfection light in an ultraviolet (UV) band for disinfecting a vicinity of a physical space of a target pathogen that is exposed to the disinfection light. The UV band is 200 nanometers (nm) to 230 nm wa...