LifeLoc Technologies Inc (LCTC)

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Lifeloc owns a patent for Systems and methods for surface decontamination:

https://patents.justia.com/patent/9623138

Date of Patent: April 18, 2017

Implementations disclosed herein provide systems and methods of automatically sterilizing a portable electronic device with ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

The technology disclosed herein includes systems and methods of decontaminating an intended surface of a device with an efficient optical design.

The UV light exposure decontaminates the surface of the device.

The disclosed technology includes a broadly defined application of surface decontamination. The term “decontamination” is defined by, refers to, and includes decontamination, sterilization, and/or disinfection of surfaces. For purposes of this disclosure, the following implementations and claims refer to the application of “sterilization” only by example but may include any sterilization, decontamination, and/or disinfection applications. For example, in some implementations, sterilization may be accomplished by killing microbes and spores. In another example, disinfection may be accomplished by inactivating viruses, or partially inactivating (e.g., 99.9%) viruses.

UV light can be used to decontaminate a surface, for example, by disinfecting or sterilizing by inactivating viruses or killing microbes and spores of microorganisms (e.g., E. coli, etc.), respectively.

The sterilization system can irradiate the intended surface using a calculated UV dosage to kill or inactivate microorganisms on the intended surface.