ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,525, issued on July 14, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Ark.).

"Microwave-plasma disinfector (origreen)" was invented by Samir El-Ghazaly (Fayetteville, Ark.), Amirreza Ghadimi Avval (Fayetteville, Ark.), Sara Ghayouraneh (Fayetteville, Ark.), Saleh Alfawaz (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Ibrahim Alquaydheb (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave-plasma disinfector (Origreen) with a microwave source with multi-feed points and variable output power. It also has a low-temperature atmospheric-pressure plasma source. This versatile microwave-plasma disinfector has the ability ...