ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,644, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AIREX Co. LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Decontamination system" was invented by Koji Kawasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Gun Sou (Nagoya, Japan), Tsukasa Kitano (Nagoya, Japan), Zhiqiang Guo (Nagoya, Japan), Haruka Futamura (Nagoya, Japan), Yukihiro Yazaki (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Kakuda (Nagoya, Japan) and Jun Masudome (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decontamination system not requiring large-scale equipment and capable of efficiently using a decontamination liquid. Long pipes can be installed for each of multiple rooms to be decontaminated, a decontamination liquid is not present in supply pip...