ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,170, issued on April 22, was assigned to SOCLEAN INC. (Peterborough, N.H.).

"Disinfection systems and methods" was invented by James Knight (Bedford, N.H.) and Kevin Beaulieu (Peterborough, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disinfection device may include a disinfection chamber, a device controller, an ozone generator configured to generate ozonated air, and a humidifier assembly configured to encourage a mixing of the ozonated air with humidity. The humidifier assembly may include a humidification chamber that includes a humidification chamber outlet, a chamber housing, a chamber base coupled to the chamber housing, and chamber e...