US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus, method and system for selectively affecting and/or killing a virus" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,587, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"Apparatus, method and system for selectively affecting and/or killing a virus" was invented by Gerhard Randers-Pehrson (Ossining, N.Y.), David Jonathan Brenner (New York) and Alan Bigelow (Nyack, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can provide an apparatus and method for generating at least one radiation can be provided. The exemplary apparatus and/or method can selectively kill and/or affect at least one virus. For example, a radiation source first arrangement can be...