US 12,303,608 B2
Spaced apart sterilization lights in an aircraft cabin
Samuel Colt Meskimen, Huntington Beach, CA (US)
Assigned to Thales Avionics, Inc., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Thales Avionics, Inc., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,901.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/129,918, filed on Dec. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0193283 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A61L 2/24 (2006.01); B60Q 3/47 (2017.01); B60Q 3/68 (2017.01); B64D 41/00 (2006.01); B64D 47/02 (2006.01); B64F 5/30 (2017.01); H02J 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/10 (2013.01) [A61L 2/24 (2013.01); B60Q 3/47 (2017.02); B60Q 3/68 (2017.02); B64D 41/00 (2013.01); B64D 47/02 (2013.01); B64F 5/30 (2017.01); H02J 13/00036 (2020.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/25 (2013.01); A61L 2202/26 (2013.01); B64D 2221/00 (2013.01); H02J 13/00007 (2020.01); H02J 13/00026 (2020.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pathogen sterilization light assembly for a vehicle cabin, comprising:
a plurality of sterilization lights mounted at spaced apart locations along a cabin of the vehicle and configured to emit ultraviolet light directed toward areas within the cabin to sterilize pathogens; and
a power controller configured to:
control which of the sterilization lights is powered by a power supply at a time, and
select which of the sterilization lights are powered on at a time based on information indicating at least one of: locations of passenger seats that have been occupied on a previous flight; locations of passenger seats that are assigned to be occupied on a next flight; locations of passenger seats that have been occupied at least a threshold number of times on previous flights since a last sterilization process has been performed; and/or locations of passenger seats that have been occupied at least a threshold total time on one or more previous flights since a last sterilization process has been performed.