Air filter with pathogen monitoring and inactivation
AssigneeIndustrial Polymers and Chemicals, Inc.
InventorThomas J. Kennedy, III
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Abstract
An improved technology for inactivation of viruses, for example the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is causing the Covid-19 pandemic, is described. The technology can include a device that includes a substrate coated in a polymer that is infused with a pathogen inactivating material. In various embodiments, at a given time, a portion of the pathogen inactivating material is exposed to the environment, and the device is configured to periodically or intermittently expose additional pathogen inactivating material to the environment. For example, the polymer can be ablative or sacrificial.
Claims18
A device for inactivating a pathogen in an environment, the device comprising:
- a substrate;
- a polymer dried or cured onto the substrate, wherein the polymer comprises at least one of an ablative polymer and a sacrificial polymer comprising a material that wears away from at least one of a thermal interaction, a UV interaction, an energetic interaction, an oxidating interaction, and a hydrogenating interaction;
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- a pathogen inactivating material infused within the polymer, wherein, at a given time, a portion of the pathogen inactivating material is exposed to the environment.
A method for inactivating a pathogen in an environment, the method comprising:
- drying or curing a polymer infused with a pathogen inactivating material to a substrate, wherein (i) the polymer comprises at least one of an ablative polymer and a sacrificial polymer comprising a material that wears away from at least one of a thermal interaction, a UV interaction, an energetic interaction, an oxidating interaction, and a hydrogenating interaction and (ii) at a given time, a portion of the pathogen inactivating material is exposed to the environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.