This present invention relates to a consumer convenience accessory that enables an individual to comfortably yet manually transport a large number of items, such as carry bags, from one place to another. The accessory is a hand carrying device that is comprised of a handle portion and a lower arm and/or hooks that extend downwardly therefrom to support a plurality of carry bags each having a handle. In one embodiment, the carrying device may further comprise one or more repositionable arms to further secure the carry bags during transport and/or a hand sanitizer dispensing mechanism.

The pathogen containment apparatus disclosed herein is alterable between a deployed position and a storage position. In the deployed position, a hood defines a hood chamber that partially encloses a head and upper torso of a patient. Air that may include pathogens from the patient or the ambient environment is communicated sequentially from the ambient environment through the hood chamber, through a duct, and through a container chamber. A filter and a UV lamp may remove pathogens from the air as the air is being communicated. The pathogen containment apparatus may be altered from the deployed position into the storage position wherein the pathogen containment apparatus is condensed into the container chamber of the container to allow transport or storage.

To provide a method for disinfecting air and/or surfaces which can be carried out truly continuously, in particular for essentially 24 hours a day, with people and/or animals present, the a method for disinfecting air and/or surfaces is proposed, wherein a disinfectant is dispersed continuously into a volume and/or area to be disinfected, wherein the disinfectant comprises electrolyzed and/or sterilized water containing hypochlorous acid, and wherein the disinfectant is dispersed at a dispersion rate between 0.5 ml/m.sup.3/h and 12 ml/m.sup.3/h.

A pathogen disinfection apparatus includes an ultraviolet (UV) light source configured to emit UV light toward a target location to at least partially inactivate pathogens exposed to the emitted UV light in the path of the emitted light and a surface of the target location. The UV light has a mean peak wavelength between 200-280 nanometers. Further, the pathogen disinfection apparatus includes a distance sensor configured to determine a distance between the UV light source and the target location. Moreover, the pathogen disinfection apparatus includes dosimetry circuitry configured to monitor a dose of the UV light at the target location in real-time based at least in part on an intensity of the UV light and the distance between the UV light source and the target location.

An accessory for a mobile communication device, the mobile communication device having an exterior housing and a processor. The accessory includes a pathogen disinfection apparatus mountable to the exterior housing of the mobile communication device. The pathogen disinfection apparatus includes an ultraviolet (UV) light source configured to emit UV light having a mean peak wavelength between 200-280 nanometers toward a target location to at least partially inactivate pathogens exposed to the emitted UV light in the path of the emitted light and a surface of the target location. Further, the accessory includes an application for downloading to the mobile communication device. The application includes processor executable instructions configured to generate signals to control the pathogen disinfection apparatus, including to operate the UV light source.

A pathogen disinfection system includes a light array, a proximity sensor, and a controller configured to send and receive signals to the light array and proximity sensor. The light array comprises a plurality of ultraviolet (UV) light emitters and a plurality of visible light emitters. Each of the UV and visible light emitter is configured to produce an individual light beam having an individual volume between the emitter and an individual target surface area located at a given distance away from the emitter. Further, each UV light emitter is configured to emit ultraviolet light having a mean peak wavelength between 200-280 nanometer to at least partially inactivate pathogens exposed to the emitted UV light. Moreover, the controller is configured to send a first signal to the array to activate the array and a second signal to the array to deactivate the array.

A self-sterilizing, face mask, respirator, open or enclosed face shield employs germicidal, far UV-C light safe for direct human exposure, mitigating risk of acquisition or transmission of respiratory pathogens, such as COVID 19. Device attachments or special lenses direct far UV-C light into the respiratory chamber and/or reservoir areas of infection including nasal, oropharyngeal or ocular areas to reduce or eliminate pathogens, serving also as a treatment modality. In a preferred embodiment the face shield has a removable front section, which can be exchanged or replaced with sections that include various functional attributes while maintaining germicidal protections and avoiding need to remove PPE during these activities including consumption of liquids, oral medications or food, as well as providing antimicrobial absorbent sneeze or cough guard or rhinorrhea secretion absorption, or a communication device to address communication deficiencies caused by respiratory protection barriers.

A method for sterilizing viruses comprises generating a beam having radiating energy therein at a predetermined frequency for generating mechanical eigen-vibrations in a spherical virus to destroy the spherical virus and a predetermined cartesian beam intensity for imparting transverse shear forces to an icosahedral lattice structure of the spherical virus to destroy the icosahedral lattice structure of the spherical virus using beam generation circuitry. A resonance frequency of the spherical virus for inducing the mechanical eigen-vibrations in the spherical virus is determined based upon a size, geometry, and protein material of the spherical virus using a predetermined three-dimensional acoustical model of mechanical vibrations within the spherical virus. The beam generation at the predetermined frequency and the predetermined cartesian beam intensity is controlled using a controller responsive to the determined resonance frequency. The predetermined frequency equals the resonance frequency of the spherical virus. The beam on is radiated a predetermined area to destroy the spherical virus at the predetermined area using radiating circuitry. The mechanical eigen-vibrations at the resonance frequency of the spherical virus determined by the predetermined three-dimensional acoustical model are induced within the spherical virus to destroy the spherical virus responsive to the predetermined frequency. The transverse shear forces are imparted to the icosahedral lattice structure of the spherical virus to destroy the icosahedral lattice structure of the spherical virus.

A method for sterilizing a hand of a subject is disclosed. In this method a hand is inserted into a Hand Hygiene Hub. The presence of the hand and/or a pathogen on the hand is sensed of a subject. In response to the pathogen and/or hand's presence being sensed, the inserted hand is automatically irradiated with 222 nm Ultraviolet-C light within the Hand Hygiene Hub. The hand is irradiated for a predetermined period of time that is set based on a type of the pathogen sensed.

An ultraviolet light sterilization device for treatment of plant materials, having a rotational treatment chamber having an axis of rotation and at least one mechanical agitation element, an ultraviolet light device that is positioned inside the rotational treatment chamber and is further positioned generally parallel to and congruent with the axis of rotation and where the ultraviolet light device and the rotational treatment chamber are connected to one another via a rotational bearing such that the rotational treatment chamber may be rotated about the axis of rotation while the ultraviolet light device does not rotate, and where the ultraviolet light device is electrically coupled to a power source via an electrical cable that passes through an aperture in the rotational bearing.