ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,173, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Flexible UVC disinfectant device" was invented by Srinivas D. Gonabal (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configured for disinfecting a desired touchpoint may include a flexible housing, which may be field configurable into two or more different shapes to accommodate the desired touchpoint. The flexible housing may house a plurality of ultraviolet-C (UVC) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a power source, and a controller which may be operatively coupled to the plurality of UVC LEDs, the power source, and a motion sensor. In res...