ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,071, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SWANSON TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"UV sterilization fresh-keeping box" was invented by Tung-Yang Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Shih-Yi Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsuan-Hui Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a UV sterilization fresh-keeping box, including an accommodating box and a UV sterilization device removably disposed on a top side of the accommodating box. The accommodating box includes a box body with a storage space, and a lid disposed on the box body. The lid has a light transmission part to allow UV light to pass through, and a first ...