ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,021, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Inventio AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).
"Passenger transport system with a disinfecting device" was invented by Jackie Zhou (Shanghai), Summer Zheng (Shanghai), Cui Yao (Shanghai) and Georg Wagenleitner (RoBleithen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a disinfecting device for disinfecting a movable surface of a passenger transport system. The disinfecting device has a housing with an interior and at least one radiation source arranged in the interior. The radiation source can emit germicidal electromagnetic radiation. The disinfecting device also has a device, arrang...