US Patent Issued to Dynamics on Aug. 5 for "UV-C virus inactivation devices and suppressing sound and operating the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,178, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dynamics Inc. (Cheswick, Pa.).

"UV-C virus inactivation devices and suppressing sound and operating the same" was invented by Jeffrey D. Mullen (Glenshaw, Pa.), Andrew Veter (Pittsburgh), Keith Huthmacher (Pittsburgh), Peter Gilgunn (Pittsburgh), James Nelson (Rillton, Pa.), David Malarik (Worthington, Pa.) and Jun Yu (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An UV-C device may include several UV-C light sources (e.g., UV-C LEDs) and such UV-C LEDs may have UV-C reflecting structures arranged to direct UV-C in a particular direction and at a particular size and shape. Doing so may, for example, ...