ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,444, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS (Grenoble, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Sanitization using light" was invented by Salim Bouchene (Seyssinet-Pariset, France), Jean Camiolo (St Egreve, France) and Roberto La Rosa (Viagrande, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for sanitization of a surface by emission of a plurality of sanitization wavelengths, and to a device for implementing the method. The method comprises emitting light using first LEDs configured to emit the sanitization wavelengths, receiving, by a circuit, a...