ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,803, issued on April 15, was assigned to simplehuman LLC (Torrance, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for sanitizing mobile electronic devices" was invented by Frank Yang (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Ryan Wong (Long Beach, Calif.), Cory Bowman (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Frederick Bushroe (Tucson, Ariz.), William Patrick Conley (Long Beach, Calif.) and Nasser Pirshafiey (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure includes a description of a sanitizing system for sanitizing a mobile electronic device comprising: a housing; a sanitizer contained within the housing configured to emit radiation with a sanitizing effe...