US Patent Issued to RIKEN on March 24 for "Infection prevention device and infection prevention method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,740, issued on March 24, was assigned to RIKEN (Wako, Japan).

"Infection prevention device and infection prevention method" was invented by Satoshi Wada (Saitama, Japan), Atsushi Shinjo (Saitama, Japan) and Takayo Ogawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an infection prevention device and an infection prevention method including a light source 11 for radiating light in specific wavelength range, and a beam-firming optical element 12 for forming the light radiated from the light source 11 on a radiant film 20 having a predetermined width, wherein pathogenic microorganism which levitates toge...