ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,075, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AIREX Co. LTD (Nagoya, Japan).
"Pass box" was invented by Koji Kawasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Kakuda (Nagoya, Japan), Jun Masudome (NNagoya, Japan), Tsukasa Kitano (Nagoya, Japan) and Zhiqiang Guo (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pass box configured to accommodate and decontaminate an article by concentrating a mist of decontamination agent on an article's surface and to reduce a duration of aeration operations. The box includes a decontamination chamber, an aeration chamber in which residue of the decontamination agent is removed from the article's surface, a decontamination ...