ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,411, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Ultraviolet (UV) light source including light-emitting diode (LED) package with waterproof coating layer" was invented by Dongkuk Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Daesup Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wooseok Jang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyoungcheol Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultraviolet (UV) light source includes: a substrate coupled to an upper housing; a light-emitting diode (LED) package on the substrate; and a waterproof coating layer on at least a portion of the substrate, wherein the LED package inclu...