ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,355, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dynotron Inc (Salt Lake City).

"Multiuse UVC sterilization light, housing, mounts, and accessories" was invented by James Saffari (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultraviolet sterilization system can be mounted to an air duct to sterilize the air therein and then selectively removed and used in a handheld portable mode that allows a user to sterilize a target surface. The ultraviolet sterilization system may include a housing, a heatsink element, an array of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) housed within the housing to generate a directional beam of ultraviolet radiat...