US Patent Issued to LEDVANCE on July 1 for "Disinfecting lighting apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,461, issued on July 1, was assigned to LEDVANCE GMBH (Garching bei Munich, Germany).

"Disinfecting lighting apparatus" was invented by Yang Kevin Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Shengguo Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminaire is provided. The luminaire comprises a light source for generating a light, an electrical circuitry for driving the light source, and at least one air duct extending from an air inlet to an air outlet. The air ducts comprise walls with a photocatalytic element and are configured such that the air flowing through the at least one air duct can get in contact with the photocatalytic element and pa...