ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,758, issued on March 11, was assigned to Air Purix Inc. (Delray Beach, Fla.).

"Replaceable uv lamp cartridge for air purification systems" was invented by Mehrdad Ghalebi (Delray Beach, Fla.) and Robert L. Diamond (Palm Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example replaceable ultraviolet (UV) lamp cartridge includes: a tamper-proof UV energy absorbing shell containing one or more UV radiation emitting devices; an air inlet disposed at a first end of the tamper-proof UV energy absorbing shell; an air outlet disposed at a second end of the tamper-proof UV energy absorbing shell; and a self-aligning connector for receiving ext...