ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,175, issued on March 31, was assigned to PURioLABS LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for chemical disinfection" was invented by Mike Whitaker (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of disinfection of an object, the method including securing an infected object to a moveable carrousel within a chamber; exposing the infected object to a disinfection cycle, the disinfection cycle comprising: exposing the infected object to an atomized liquid disinfectant fog comprising a disinfectant; exposing the infected object to ultraviolet illumination from an ultraviolet illumination source before, during, after, or any thereof exp...