ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,028, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CLARANOR (Avignon, France).

"Device for decontaminating objects" was invented by Christophe Riedel (Avignon, France), Pierre Lalubin (Graveson, France) and Julien Dubois (Rochefort du Gard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decontaminating stoppers, including a decontamination zone in which the stoppers move, at least one source emitting decontaminating light radiation into the decontamination zone, and is for positioning the stoppers in the decontamination zone and includes at least two elements for guiding the stoppers, and a cooling circuit for cooling the decontamination zone...