US Patent Issued to Germ Dome Industries on Dec. 2 for "System and apparatus for sanitizing a point of contact" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,194, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Germ Dome Industries LLC (Orchard Lake, Mich.).

"System and apparatus for sanitizing a 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 light, configured to di...