US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Oct. 7 for "Light generation and distribution methods and systems for disinfection, medical therapeutics, and lighting" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,443, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Light generation and distribution methods and systems for disinfection, medical therapeutics, and lighting" was invented by J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Ill.) and Andrey Mironov (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light generation and light distribution method. The method includes generating laser light with a semiconductor laser or an array of semiconductor lasers at a generation location. Light generated by the semiconductor laser is guided to a frequency converter. Light converted by the frequency converter is directed t...