ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,499, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RADIATRIC INC (Washougal, Wash.).

"Extracorporeal blood disinfection systems and methods" was invented by Stephen J. Petti (East Durham, N.Y.), Jorel Lalicki (Troy, N.Y.), Samn Raffaniello Petti (East Durham, N.Y.) and Ronald Tribble (Washougal, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selective extracorporeal blood disinfection systems and related methods are disclosed. The systems comprise an input tube forming a flowpath for the flow of infected blood. The systems further comprise a disinfection unit comprising a microbicidal light emitting device configured to emit visible light within the rang...