US Patent Issued to Light Line Medical on Jan. 20 for "Disposable fiber optic introducer component of a light delivery system for preventing, reducing and/or eliminating infections during institutional or in-home use" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,945, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Light Line Medical Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Disposable fiber optic introducer component of a light delivery system for preventing, reducing and/or eliminating infections during institutional or in-home use" was invented by Curtis D. Long (Salt Lake City), Robert W Hitchcock (Salt Lake City) and John Lackey (West Valley City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic radiation (EMR) delivery system for delivering EMR at wavelengths, intensities, exposures, and durations to locations inside and/or outside a patient's body in, on, and surrounding a tubular structure such as a tube, cat...