US Patent Issued to KOREA WATER on Sept. 1 for "Ultraviolet disinfection device and method" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,988, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KOREA WATER PARTNERSHIP (Seoul, South Korea).

"Ultraviolet disinfection device and method" was invented by Hyun Chul Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ho Don Ryu (Cincinnati) and Seok Jong Byun (Naju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an ultraviolet light-based disinfection device and method. The ultraviolet disinfection device, according to one embodiment, may disinfect a fluid on the basis of ultraviolet light, without injecting a drug or using a harmful material such as mercury. The device comprises a fluid supply unit, a flow sensing unit, a power unit, first and s...