US Patent Issued to INVENTIO on Oct. 20 for "Elevator car and UVC radiation device for an elevator car" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,205, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INVENTIO AG (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Elevator car and UVC radiation device for an elevator car" was invented by Elena Carrara (Lucerne, Switzerland), Christoph Liebetrau (Menziken, Switzerland) and Dominik Schmitt (Root, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator car includes an input device arranged on an interior surface of a first car side wall and a UVC radiation device for irradiating the input device with radiation in the UVC range, the UVC radiation device being arranged on a car ceiling. The UVC radiation device has a plurality of UVC LEDs as radiation sources arranged nex...