US Patent Issued to XYLEM EUROPE on Feb. 17 for "Sleeve break detector for UV disinfection system lamp assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,689, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to XYLEM EUROPE GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Sleeve break detector for UV disinfection system lamp assembly" was invented by Charlie Patterson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mike Cantor (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Ray Burn (Suffolk, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UV disinfection system including at least one UV lamp assembly with a sleeve surrounding a UV lamp and defining an inner volume. The UV disinfection system further includes at least one pressure sensor. At least one non-return valve connects the inner volume of the at least one sleeve to the pressure sensor. The UV d...