US Patent Issued to Raytheon on June 24 for "Low-cost rapid thermo-chemical decontamination process for facemasks or other personal protection equipment (PPE) and related system and apparatus" (Arizona, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,074, issued on June 24, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Low-cost rapid thermo-chemical decontamination process for facemasks or other personal protection equipment (PPE) and related system and apparatus" was invented by Alf L. Carroll III (Marion, Mass.), David R. Sar (Marana, Ariz.), David D. Crouch (Riverside, Calif.) and John Carcone (Portsmouth, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for decontaminating personal protection equipment includes a microwave oven and a decontamination apparatus configured to be placed in and heated by the microwave oven. The decontamination apparatus includes a containment vessel...