US Patent Issued to Yves Swiss on July 21 for "Device for surface disinfection of the input field of card readers for credit cards, subscriptions and payment cards of all kinds" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,793, issued on July 21, was assigned to Yves Swiss AG (Sursee, Switzerland).

"Device for surface disinfection of the input field of card readers for credit cards, subscriptions and payment cards of all kinds" was invented by Claude Niedermann (Oberkirch, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for surface disinfection of card readers having an input field, a communication display and a receiving slot for credit cards, subscriptions and payment cards of all kinds to be inserted. The device includes a UVC lamp with which the entire input field of the card reader can be UVC-irradiated for disinfectio...