ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,060, issued on May 13, was assigned to HCL America Inc..
"Aircraft sanitization systems and devices" was invented by Greg Irmen (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Samaresh Swaro (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft sanitization device is disclosed. The aircraft sanitization device includes a curved enclosure operatively coupled to a first surface of an enclosed area. At a first position the curved enclosure at least partially encloses a handle affixed to the first surface. A set of Ultraviolet (UV) Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) configured to sanitize the handle are affixed to an inner surface of the curved enclosure....