US 12,274,803 B2
Systems and methods for sanitizing mobile electronic devices
Frank Yang, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US); Ryan Wong, Long Beach, CA (US); Cory Bowman, Mission Viejo, CA (US); Frederick Bushroe, Tucson, AZ (US); William Patrick Conley, Long Beach, CA (US); and Nasser Pirshafiey, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US)
Assigned to simplehuman, LLC, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed by simplehuman, LLC, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/425,218.
Application 18/425,218 is a continuation of application No. 17/444,255, filed on Aug. 2, 2021, granted, now 11,918,697.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/125,942, filed on Dec. 15, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/090,054, filed on Oct. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/060,566, filed on Aug. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0307570 A1, Sep. 19, 2024
Int. Cl. A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A61L 2/26 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/10 (2013.01) [A61L 2/26 (2013.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sanitizing system comprising:
a housing;
an entry system configured to permit an electronic device to pass through the entry system and into an interior of the housing;
a receiver system configured to receive the electronic device that is inserted into the housing, to move the electronic device fully into the interior of the housing, and to move the electronic device at least partially outside of the housing following a sanitizing procedure; and
a plurality of sanitizing or radiation-emitting sources positioned within the housing and configured to sanitize the electronic device, a first sanitizing or radiation-emitting source of the plurality of sanitizing or radiation-emitting sources positioned at a first height within the housing and a second sanitizing or radiation-emitting source of the plurality of sanitizing or radiation-emitting sources positioned at a second height within the housing, the second height being different than the first height.