US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 3 for "Sterilization device, sterilization method, active oxygen supply device, and device for treatment with active oxygen" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,064, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sterilization device, sterilization method, active oxygen supply device, and device for treatment with active oxygen" was invented by Takumi Furukawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuhiro Yamauchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaki Ozawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Kenji Takashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichi Kikuchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Shota Kaneko (Tokyo) and Masatsugu Hongo (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilization device or the like is equipped with a plasma generator and an ultraviolet light source, wherein the plasma generator is a plasma actuator provided with a first electrode ...