ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,215, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nhe Stars Group (U.S.A.) Inc. (Ontario, Calif.) and Fujian Nashida Bectronic Inc. Co. (Fuzhou, China).

"Sterilization and deodorization waste container" was invented by Shi Ping Wang (Fuzhou, China), Jiangqun Chen (Fuzhou, China), Youxi Lou (Fuzhou, China) and Zhou Lin (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilization and deodorization waste container includes an isolation chamber provided on an inner side of a container lid and a dual-wave band ultraviolet lamp tube installed in the isolation chamber. The dual-wave band ultraviolet lamp tube is capable of simultaneously generating ...