US Patent Issued to Aleddra on July 15 for "Lighting apparatus with near-infrared" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,799, issued on July 15, was assigned to Aleddra Inc. (Renton, Wash.).

"Lighting apparatus with near-infrared" was invented by Chia-Yiu Maa (Bellevue, Wash.) and Chun-Te Yu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting apparatus includes a first visible light source, a near-infrared (near-IR) radiation source, and a controller. The first visible light source emits a light with a color temperature between 1900K to 6800K, and the near-IR radiation source emitting a wavelength in the 700 nm to 1400 nm wavelength range, and in some cases, with at least 300 nm continuous spectral range of emission between 700 nm to 1400 nm. Th...