US Patent Issued to EDEN PARK ILLUMINATION, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on Sept. 23 for "Ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet lamps driven by molecular-atomic, atomic-atomic, or atomic-molecular excitation transfer" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,432, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EDEN PARK ILLUMINATION INC. (Champaign, Ill.) and THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet lamps driven by molecular-atomic, atomic-atomic, or atomic-molecular excitation transfer" was invented by Sehyun Park (Anyang-si, South Korea), Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Ill.), Andrey Mironov (Savoy, Ill.) and James Gary Eden (Mahomet, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma lamp is provided that employs excitation transfer between two atomic or molecular species so as to preferentially produce light at a specific atomic or molecular em...