US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 1 for "Disinfecting and virus inactivating device, air-conditioning apparatus including disinfecting and virus inactivating device thereon, and disinfection and virus inactivation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,456, issued on July 1, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Disinfecting and virus inactivating device, air-conditioning apparatus including disinfecting and virus inactivating device thereon, and disinfection and virus inactivation method" was invented by Akane Nomura (Tokyo), Akinori Shimizu (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Nakamura (Tokyo), Seiro Yuge (Tokyo) and Koji Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disinfecting and virus inactivating device performs disinfection treatment or inactivation treatment in a target space that a moving body enters and exits. The disinfecting and virus inactivating device includes a locus dete...