US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND BUILDING TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Selective smart air-surface sterilization system based on occupied situation and empty situation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,866, issued on June 17, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND BUILDING TECHNOLOGY (Goyang-si, South Korea).

"Selective smart air-surface sterilization system based on occupied situation and empty situation" was invented by Sang-Hwan Bae (Incheon, South Korea) and Jung-Yeon Yu (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart air-surface sterilization system of the present disclosure automatically determines an occupied situation or an empty situation of an indoor space and performs air sterilization using Ultra-Violet C (UVC) in the occupied situation and surface sterilization using UVC in the empty situat...