Abstract of the innovation ‘UVSET SafeTouch’ by DiscoverSTEM Students is published by the prestigious journal – Innovation in Digital Health, Diagnostics and Biomarkers (IDDB)

Click here to view the abstract in the Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers Journal.

The world is a very unclean place and that was proven in large magnitude during this COVID-19 pandemic. Studies have shown that the door handles carry double the bacteria of cell phones and 30 times more bacteria than toilet seats. According to a University of Arizona study, an infected person walking into an office building using a door handle could infect 60% of people in the office within 8 hours.

To solve this problem, high school kids from the DiscoverSTEM program (US-based entrepreneurial education that teaches students to identify problems to form inventive solutions) spent months of research analyzing patterns of disease spread.

With the impending dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic, students became motivated to bring the world back to normality and devised a patent-pending UV-C-based sanitizing product that fits door handles, killing over 99.9% of germs at pre-determined intervals. The product has an innovative, eco-friendly, modular, eye-sleeve design that enables it to fit almost all door handles and has near-zero UV light leakage.

Inventors:

1. Manish Rangan
2. Vihan Yerubandi
3. Humza Sheikh
4. Aiman Khan
5. Hisham Ahmad

This innovation is featured in Abstract No.: A02007 Reopen the Doors of the World with UVSET SafeTouch in Volume 2, Issue 2022 of the IDDB journal.

Click here to view the abstract in the Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers Journal.