ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,781, issued on July 22, was assigned to Galileo Group Inc. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for deactivation of viruses and other organisms with mobile ultraviolet light devices" was invented by Donald Michael Barnes (Tampa, Fla.), Thorsten Mewes (Indialantic, Fla.) and James Michael Grichnik (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are mobile imaging devices and methods thereof. A mobile imaging device includes a plurality of light source sets, sensors, and a controller. At least one program is non-transiently stored in and executable by the controller. The program causes the controller to perform a method including a...