ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,817, issued on April 15, was assigned to BOLB INC. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Air disinfection troffer" was invented by Jianping Zhang (Livermore, Calif.), Huazhong Deng (Livermore, Calif.), Ling Zhou (Livermore, Calif.) and Ying Gao (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a ceiling-mount air disinfector, i.e., an air disinfection troffer, including: a housing; a first air outlet and a first air inlet respectively near two opposing ends of a side of the housing; a filter covering the first air inlet; a cross flow fan located near the first air outlet, and an air disinfection apparatus disposed in...