ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,165, issued on April 22, was assigned to JC Technologies LLC (Auburn, Ala.).
"Disinfecting device" was invented by John Edgar Curry (Auburn, Ala.) and Harry Edmar Schulz (Auburn, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a device comprising: at least one opening, the at least one opening being configured receive an object; an inner cavity within the at least one opening, the inner cavity comprising: a light emitting diode (LED), a heat sink connecting the LED to a thermal reservoir, and an insulating layer arranged on the thermal reservoir, the insulating layer comprising an orifice arranged over the LED such...