ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,193, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Watersprint AB (Burnaby, Canada).
"Ultraviolet light emitter" was invented by Graham Ian Duck (Vancouver, Canada), Babak Adeli Koudehi (Vancouver, Canada) and Ashkan Babaie (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting assembly comprises an ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diode (LED) coupled to a UV reflector. The reflector has a three-dimensional shape spanning an angular range between 0deg and 180deg about a principal reflector axis of the reflector. The reflector is smooth and continuous across its entire surface. The UV-LED is directed towards a reflective surface of the ...