US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Dec. 16 for "Methods and systems for self-sterilizing touch screen" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,462, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for self-sterilizing touch screen" was invented by Russell James Kuzelka (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for a self-sanitizing touchscreen in a liquid crystal display of a medical device. In one example, ultraviolet light of a first wavelength may be generated from one or more light emitting diode (LED) engines positioned along a perimeter of the touchscreen or integrated in the LCD assembly to sanitize the touchscreen, the ultraviolet (UV) light flooding the touchscreen to ...