US Patent Issued to Excelitas Canada on Jan. 20 for "System and method for safely and efficiently disinfecting air in a room" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,891, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Excelitas Canada Inc. (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada).

"System and method for safely and efficiently disinfecting air in a room" was invented by Jessica Kun (Mississauga, Canada), Hsin-Chin Lee (Mississauga, Canada) and Marvin Ruffin (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultraviolet C (UVC) unit, comprises a Light Emitting Diode (LED) module containing a series of UVC LEDs that provide UVC emission, a lens that linearly focuses the UVC emission of the LED module and a controllable baffle that directs UVC light that passes from the LED module through the lens. The UVC light emitted from the LED ...