ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,019, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Inventio AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Passenger transport system with disinfection device and method for operating same" was invented by Ulrich Haberle (Purkersdorf, Austria), Gerhard Kleewein (Pressbaum, Austria) and Georg Wagenleitner (RoBleithen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger transport system and a method of operating the same are described. The passenger transport system includes a passenger conveying device, a control unit for controlling an operation of the passenger conveying device, and a disinfecting device for disinfecting a surface to be disinfected on the passe...