ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,063, issued on May 13, was assigned to Michael Gurin (Glenview, Ill.).
"Dynamic reconfigurable contamination reduction control system" was invented by Michael Gurin (Glenview, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system and pathogen inactivation method to reduce cross-contamination within operational devices that experience sequential touching of touch spots on the operational device by multiple people. Additionally, the system controls and then executes the reconfiguration of touch spot position to increase the probabilistic time interval between sequential touches from a first person to a second person physically interacti...