ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,096, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultraviolet inspection tool and inspection method using a visual indicator" was invented by Kimi Ikeda (Shizuoka, Japan), Sotaro Inomata (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yusuke Sakai (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With the present invention, it is possible to provide an inspection tool capable of easily inspecting whether or not light which inactivates a virus or the like has been radiated and easily inspecting whether or not light which is harmful to the human body has been radiated. The inspection tool of the present invention includes a first display portion and ...