Patent ID: 9511164
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: A61L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for rendering an object pathogen reduced, the apparatus comprising: a housing enclosing a disinfection chamber in which a portion of the object is to be received to be rendered pathogen reduced; an inlet aperture through which the object is introduced to the apparatus; a feed path along which the object introduced to the inlet aperture is conveyed generally toward the disinfection chamber and is discharged subsequent to exiting the disinfection chamber, wherein the feed path comprises opposing rollers between which the object is transported to be introduced into the disinfection chamber, wherein an ultraviolet light source that emits ultraviolet light to be imparted on the portion of the object introduced to the disinfection chamber for deactivating at least a portion of a viable population of the pathogen present on the object, wherein