ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,861, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to IMMUNOLIGHT LLC (Detroit).

"Energy augmentation structures for use with energy emitters and collectors" was invented by Frederic A. Bourke Jr. (Aspen, Colo.), Harold Walder (Oak Island, N.C.), Zakaryae Fathi (Raleigh, N.C.), Wayne F. Beyer Jr. (Ivanhoe, Va.), Ronald A. Rudder (Clarksville, Va.) and Joseph H. Simmons (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emission enhancement structure having at least one energy augmentation structure; and an energy converter capable of receiving energy from an energy source, converting the energy and emitting therefrom a light of a different energy th...