US Patent Issued to KNOW BIO on Aug. 26 for "Phototherapeutic light for treatment of pathogens" (North Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,169, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KNOW BIO LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Phototherapeutic light for treatment of pathogens" was invented by Nathan Stasko (Chapel Hill, N.C.), David T. Emerson (Durham, N.C.), Adam Cockrell (Durham, N.C.), F. Neal Hunter (Durham, N.C.), Michael John Bergmann (Atlanta), Rebecca McDonald (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Nicholas William Medendorp Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Gerald H. Negley (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Katelyn P. Reighard (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and related devices for impinging light on tissue, for example within a body of a patient, to induce various biological effects are discl...