ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,852, issued on May 12, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE (Changwon-si, South Korea).

"Air conditioning system and method for disinfection of public facilities" was invented by Seung-hoon Lee (Changwon-si, South Korea), Do-geun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Chang-su Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea), Joo-young Park (Changwon-si, South Korea), Sung-hoon Jung (Changwon-si, South Korea), Joon-hwan Choi (Changwon-si, South Korea), Eun-yeon Byeon (Changwon-si, South Korea), Jong-man Lee (Changwon-si, South Korea), Jang-hoon Ha (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Sang-jin Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Th...