ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,521, issued on July 14, was assigned to AquiSense Inc. (Erlanger, Ky.).
"Apparatus for irradiation" was invented by Theodore Robert Harris (Charlotte, N.C.), Jennifer Godwin Pagan (Charlotte, N.C.), Paolo Batoni (Charlotte, N.C.) and John Robert Krause (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irradiation apparatus configured to be coupled to an irradiation chamber containing a material to be irradiated, comprising: a support structure; one or more radiation sources coupled to the support structure; and a heat exchange mechanism thermally coupled to the one or more radiation sources. The heat exchange mechanism comprises one...