ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,406, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Solaris Disinfection Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Targeted surface disinfection system with pulsed UV light" was invented by Prakash Valentino Ramanand (Burlington, Canada), Manjinder Singh Dhillon (Milton, Canada), Adam Ray Steinhoff (Toronto) and Vinod K. Menon (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a targeted surface disinfection system are disclosed. The system includes a set of one or more UV lamps, a high voltage power supply for driving the lamps, a mobile carriage including a chassis supporting the set, an articulated head assembly including at least one UV lamp from ...