ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,125, issued on July 7, was assigned to Specialist Health Solutions Ltd. (Great Britain).

"UV emitter and controller for disinfection of spaces" was invented by Tautvydas Karitonas (Kings Lynn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to disinfection of object(s) in a space using a UV emitter. A calibration process is performed in which one or more UV sensors are placed proximate the object or set of objects to be disinfected. The sensor(s) measure a UV dose and the time taken for the UV dose to equal to a level suitable for disinfection to occur to the required level is measured. This is saved in a databa...