US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Oct. 7 for "Antiviral and antibacterial disinfection aero-solution using edible food dyes" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,964, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Antiviral and antibacterial disinfection aero-solution using edible food dyes" was invented by Young L Kim (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jung Woo Leem (West Lafayette, Ind.), Hee-Jae Jeon (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Yuhyun Ji (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A whole-body or whole-room voluminous antiviral and antibacterial airborne disinfection system is disclosed which includes a sterilization chamber, including a nozzle disposed in the sterilization chamber, a tank disposed outside the sterilization chamber, the tank is adapted to...