ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,392, issued on May 26, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Devices, methods, and systems of a self-sanitizing laptop" was invented by Smit Kapila (Bangalore, India), Sean J. W. Lawrence (Bangalore, India), Min Suet Lim (Gelugor, Malaysia), Akhilesh Rallabandi (Chandler, Ariz.), Prakash Kurma Raju (Bangalore, India) and Joy Poddar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and methods for self-sanitizing a device using the built-in screen display of the device (e.g., a laptop). The device includes a processor configured to execute instructions to determine a relationship betw...