ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,475, issued on April 21.
"Sanitizing apparatus for card exchange" was invented by Robert G. Tegel (Orangeville, Ill.), Turan Erdogan (Kingston, Mass.) and David H. Adams (Chesterfield, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for exposing a flat card to sanitizing radiant energy, has an enclosure that has an exposure chamber having a source of sanitizing radiation. A first insert slot and a second insert slot, disposed along an input surface of the enclosure are each configured to accept insertion of the flat card. A transport apparatus defines a first transport path to convey the flat card from the first insert slot, and thr...