ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,060, issued on Jan. 27.

"Charging case for earbuds" was invented by Reshma Kheraj (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging case having one or more charging docks for charging one or more earbuds. The charging case can further have UV LEDs for automatically sterilizing the earbuds while charging."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2022, under Application No. 17/990,495.

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