ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,265, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Water-soluble photosensitive composition of photodynamic environmental disinfection and method of environmental disinfection by using the same" was invented by Tak-Wah Wong (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chun-Keung Yu (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Ming-Yeng Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is appertaining to a water-soluble photosensitive composition of photodynamic environmental disinfection and method of environmental disinfection by using the same. In this method, a short-term atomization step and a whi...