ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,354, issued on March 25.
"Device for sanitizing garments and personal items" was invented by Gustavo Adolfo Carlos Fuentevilla (Nuevo Leon, Mexico).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention corresponds to a device in which garments such as clothing, personal objects such as wallets, watches, shoes, coins are placed among a large number of objects, which have been carried as personal objects by a user and that by some reason they were exposed to microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria and other pollutants found in the environment; Because these microorganisms use air or saliva, sweat, among other fluids that act as vectors...