ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,864, issued on Aug. 11.
"Increased effectiveness of UV pathogen eradication" was invented by Israel Nissenbaum (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Asher Baum (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Mitchell J. Bogart (New Haven, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manual, automated and mass methods and devices, for enhancing the effect of UV light disinfection (at UV wavelength of 200 nm to 340 nm) of transmitted UV light on or in humans and devices by at least one of the steps of: a) increasing controllable output power of a UV emitting device, including using high power UV lasers or direct placement of UV light sources, b) increasing the efficiency of UV disinfection...