US Patent Issued to Amplify Solutions on April 22 for "Systems and methods for UV decontamination of respirators" (Ohio, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,166, issued on April 22, was assigned to Amplify Solutions Inc. (Cincinnati).

"Systems and methods for UV decontamination of respirators" was invented by Sasha Dobrovolsky (Nashville, Tenn.) and Mark Giller (Maineville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering facepiece respirator decontamination device includes an enclosure defining a UV irradiation chamber, at least one UV lamp positioned in the irradiation chamber, a moveable drawer comprising a platform for positioning a respirator, wherein the moveable drawer can move to a closed position in the respirator positioned on the platform is located in the irradiation chamber, a...