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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 05, 1996
Joseph Murphy, Northbridge, MA (US);
John Hickey, Weymouth, MA (US);
Yongjun Duan, Lexington, MA (US);
Symbollon Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);
Abstract
A microbial decontamination system includes a chamber for housing items to be decontaminated as well as a source of one or more iodine-containing fluids that are conveyed to the chamber as necessary. The system also includes a detector element for monitoring the concentration of free iodine within the chamber. A signal representative of the free iodine concentration is conveyed to a controller element which communicates with receptacles for housing the iodine-containing fluids so that additional iodine-containing fluids may be added to maintain the free iodine concentration within the chamber at a desired level.