ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,301, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Disinfection lighting device having batwing optics" was invented by Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a first solid-state light source configured to emit white light; a second solid-state light source configured to emit violet light having a dominant peak wavelength in a wavelength range from 380 to 420 nm; a collimator configured to collimate the white light along the main optical axis into a white light beam having a first spatial light distribution with a first Full Width Half Maximum (FWHM1);...