ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,689, issued on April 14, was assigned to ARB LABS INC. (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for sterilizing gaming equipment" was invented by Alexander George Stal (Grimsby, Canada), Andrzej Kepinski (Toronto), Vlad Cazan (Thornhill, Canada) and Adrian Bulzacki (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and device for sterilizing gaming tokens stored in gaming equipment containers such as a tray having apertures for receiving gaining tokens in parallel rows. The system and device includes a sterilizing lid that can be positioned over a complementary tray having modular roller inserts inserted, the modular roller inserts...