ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,437, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC (East Cleveland, Ohio).

"Light and disinfection system and a method for disinfecting an illuminated surface by the system" was invented by Ming Lei (Shanghai) and Huisheng Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a light and disinfection system and a method for disinfecting an illuminated surface by the light and disinfection system, wherein the light and disinfection system comprises an illumination module, including an illumination source; a distance sensor for detecting a distance between the light and disinfection system and the i...