ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,800, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Tube sterilization system using an LED UV emitter" was invented by Yan Chai (San Jose, Calif.) and Franklin Chiang (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to a catheter sterilization system using semiconductor light emitting devices (LEDs) to sterilize the lumen of a catheter. The sterilization system may include a sterilization head with attached semiconductor LEDs sized for insertion into the catheter. The sterilization head is connected to the linearly extending connector allowing an operator to move the sterilization...