ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,495, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ushio Denki K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ultraviolet light irradiation device, method of using ultraviolet light irradiation device, and ultraviolet light irradiation method" was invented by Keisuke Naito (Tokyo), Hideaki Yagyu (Tokyo), Akihiro Kuno (Tokyo) and Shigeki Fujisawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ultraviolet light irradiation device that is capable of causing effective inactivation of microorganisms as well as a method of using the ultraviolet light irradiation device.An ultraviolet light irradiation device includes a light source that radiates ultraviolet light with a wavelen...