ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,657, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KNOW Bio LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Illumination devices for inducing biological effects" was invented by Adam Cockrell (Durham, N.C.), Jacob Kocher (Durham, N.C.), David T. Emerson (Durham, N.C.), Michael John Bergmann (Atlanta), Thomas Matthew Womble (Wake Forest, N.C.), Antony Paul van de Ven (Nongkae, Thailand), Nathan Stasko (Chapel Hill, N.C.), F. Neal Hunter (Durham, N.C.) and Rebecca McDonald (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Illumination devices for impinging light on tissue, for example within a body cavity of a patient, to induce various biological effects are disclose...