US Patent Issued to eLUMIGEN on July 28 for "Germicidal lighting fixture using photocatalytic oxidation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,197, issued on July 28, was assigned to eLUMIGEN LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Germicidal lighting fixture using photocatalytic oxidation" was invented by Mahendra Dassanayake (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Brian Petku (Clarkston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purification system has a reaction chamber, a fan coupled to the reaction chamber communicating air through the reaction chamber, a light source having a first wavelength directed at air passing through the reaction chamber and a surface comprising a photocatalyst. The light source is directed at the surface comprising the photocatalyst."

The patent was filed on Oct. 20, 2021, u...