US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 1 for "Handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,265, issued on April 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail" was invented by Hiroki Izu (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Sato (Susono, Japan), Daisuke Ishii (Sunto-gun. Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Hiroki Morita (Hiratsuka, Japan), Kei Sato (Toyota, Japan), Masaki Nanahara (Toyota, Japan), Kazumi Serizawa (Toyota, Japan), Hironobu Tanaka (Tokyo-to, Japan), Shunsuke Mogi (Hachioji, Japan), Takashi Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Akihiro Kusumoto (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail is mounted on a vehicle having hand...