ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,520, issued on July 14, was assigned to NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES (Taipei City, Taiwan).
"Microbial inhibition device" was invented by Hsin-Yi Tsai (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Hsuan Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chun-Han Chou (Taipei City, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ching-Ching Yang (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microbial inhibition device for inhibiting microorganisms on a predetermined object includes: a covering member covering the predetermined object, and having an attachment surface for attaching to the predetermined object, and an exposed surface opposite to the attachmen...