US Patent Issued to Dean Schumacher on May 13 for "System and apparatus for sanitizing a door opening device or other point of contact" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,061, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dean Schumacher (Orchard Lake, Mich.).

"System and apparatus for sanitizing a door opening device or other point of contact" was invented by Dean Schumacher (Orchard Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for sanitizing a point-of-contact surface may include a housing configured to be affixed about at least a portion of said point of contact. The housing may have an interior in or through which the point of contact may be accessed and an anterior opening for access to the interior. The apparatus may further include one or more sources of a sanitizing agent, such as germicidal li...