ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,951, issued on March 3, was assigned to VERSITECH Ltd. (Hong Kong).
"Disinfection robots" was invented by Ning Xi (Hong Kong), Ye Ma (Hong Kong), Siyu Wang (Hong Kong), Qingyang Wang (Hong Kong), Jiajie Ye (Hong Kong), Chun Kwok (Hong Kong) and Sheng Bi (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UV based surface disinfection system that consists of the UV light source, a robot arm, and an omni directional mobile base. The mobile robot can be programmed autonomously and be able to bring the UV light source to the centimeters away from surfaces to achieve effective and efficient surface disinfection. The mobile robot can naviga...