ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,544, issued on June 17, was assigned to CleanMotion Sarl (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Device for automatically cleaning a handle" was invented by Alex Horvath (Lausanne, Switzerland), Valentin Van Sprolant (Bonne, France) and Giovanni Barilla (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for cleaning a handle, including a handle including a gripping surface to be disinfected, an application member for applying a cleaning liquid to the gripping surface, and cleaning liquid supply element including at least one reservoir for receiving cleaning liquid and distributing it to the application member. The application member includes at least...