US Patent Issued to Hamilton Safe on July 29 for "Ultraviolet cleaning of carriers in a drive-up banking system" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,280, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hamilton Safe (Mason, Ohio).

"Ultraviolet cleaning of carriers in a drive-up banking system" was invented by V. John Stroia (Loveland, Ohio), Todd Lefevers (Hamilton, Ohio) and William Harvey Detherage (Amelia, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a light kit assembly to disinfect a carrier between banking transactions of a drive-through banking system. Customers or bankers can activate the sanitization mode of operation to kill germs and viruses without removal of the carrier from the drive-through banking system. The sanitization mode of operation can be a...