US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 17 for "Ultraviolet light sanitizing cart having a wand assembly" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,172, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Ultraviolet light sanitizing cart having a wand assembly" was invented by Kevin S. Callahan (Everett, Wash.) and Jamie J. Childress (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultraviolet (UV) light sanitizing cart including one or more first UV lamps configured to emit UV light, and one or more wand assemblies comprising one or more second UV lamps configured to emit UV light. The one or more wand assemblies are moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position."

The patent was filed on Sept. 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/022,392....