US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on Oct. 21 for "Ultrafast-UV laser integrating cavity mediated inactivation of a pathogen" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,225, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Ultrafast-UV laser integrating cavity mediated inactivation of a pathogen" was invented by Dmitri Voronin (Tampa, Fla.), Shyam Mohapatra (Tampa, Fla.), Subhra Mohapatra (Tampa, Fla.), Sharad Ambardar (Tampa, Fla.), Mark Howell (Tampa, Fla.) and Karthick Mayilsamy (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for increasing efficiency of a pathogen inactivation via enhancing UVC light absorption at such pathogen by multiple diffuse scattering of the light at a wall defining a substantially closed volume, thereby increasing a number of angles at wh...