ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,470, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kinnos Inc. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Devices, compositions, and methods for use in surface decontamination" was invented by Katherine Jin (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Kevin Tyan (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jason Kang (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Sarah-Marie Saatori (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Aaron Chong (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are devices, compositions, and methods for surface disinfection and decontamination; the devices generally adapted to contain a single or multi-component indicator composition, and optionally a disinfectant composition, and to dispense the indicator composition and optional disinfe...