ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,631, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Communications Test Design Inc. (West Chester, Pa.).

"System and method for cleaning mobile devices" was invented by Ryan Smith (Phoenixville, Pa.), Nidhin Davis (Glen Mills, Pa.), Kartik Patel (West Chester, Pa.), Christopher Mandeen (West Chester, Pa.), Jaclyn Domsohn (West Chester, Pa.) and Manickavel Ganesan (West Chester, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated cleaning system for a mobile device includes a conveyor to move the mobile device through the cleaning system; a first wiper to wipe an automatically dispensed cleaning solution from a first major surface of the mobile devic...