US Patent Issued to CORNING on May 27 for "Illumination of light diffusing optical fibers, illumination of blue-violet light delivery systems, blue-violet light delivery systems, and methods for blue-violet light induced disinfection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,064, issued on May 27, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Illumination of light diffusing optical fibers, illumination of blue-violet light delivery systems, blue-violet light delivery systems, and methods for blue-violet light induced disinfection" was invented by William Spencer Klubben III (Boston) and Kaitlyn Matias Rees (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of disinfecting using a light diffusing fiber includes optically coupling a light source to a light diffusing optical fiber having a core, a cladding surrounding the core, an outer surface, and a plurality of scattering structures positioned wi...