ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,068, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAES GETTERS S.P.A. (Lainate MI, Italy).
"UV disinfection box system" was invented by Alessio Corazza (Como, Italy), Luca Mauri (Cesano Maderno, Italy), Marco Filippo Batavia (Lucca, Italy), Ginevra Della Porta (Milan) and Arianna Papadia (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A box-shaped UV disinfection system (100) comprises a plurality of internal UV sources (121, 122, 131, 132, 141, 142) disposed on at least two of its walls (120, 130, 140) that are adjacent to each other, all of the internal wall surfaces having a reflectance higher than 80% and preferably higher than 87% in the wavelengths...