ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,432, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Glint Photonics Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).
"Apparatus for disinfection of occupied spaces" was invented by Andrew Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Chadwick Casper (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Selected-area Ultraviolet Disinfection (SUD) system which enables increased frequency of ultraviolet light treatment of spaces by improving the convenience, cost, safety, and/or efficacy. The core utility of the SUD system is to frequently and safely disinfect spaces where occupants are conducting their normal activities, enabled by a system constructed with a disinfecting light source that ca...