US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Oct. 14 for "Anti-fouling unit and method of applying a plurality of anti-fouling units to a surface" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,876, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Anti-fouling unit and method of applying a plurality of anti-fouling units to a surface" was invented by Roelant Boudewijn Hietbrink (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Bart Andre Salters (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-fouling unit (1) is configured to be arranged on a surface and comprises at least one electric circuit (30) including a light-emitting arrangement (31) configured to emit anti-fouling light. Further, the anti-fouling unit (1) comprises a carrier slab (40) carrying the at least one electric circuit (30), wh...