Patent ID: 11911530
Assignee: UV PARTNERS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. A UV-C touch and feedback user interface module comprising:
a protective covering having a UV and visible light transmissive portion that forms a touch surface of the module user interface;
light emitting diodes (LEDs) including a UV LED and a visible light LED;, a printed circuit board joined with the protective covering and the LEDs, the printed circuit board including:
a disinfection and human machine interface integrated circuit electrically coupled to the printed circuit board, the disinfection integrated circuit including:
an LED driver module configured to drive the LEDs;
a sensor module configured to sense a user interaction at or proximal the touch surface;
a communications module configured to communicate with an external device;
a control circuit coupled to the LED driver, the sensor module, and the communication module, wherein the control circuit is configured to:
provide disinfection control signals to the LED driver module for automatic disinfection at or proximal the touch surface via the UV LED transmitting UV-C light through the UV transmissive portion of the protective covering to the touch surface;
provide feedback control signals to the LED driver module for providing visual feedback via the visible light LED transmitting visible light through the protective covering to the touch surface; and

wherein the sensor module is configured as a dynamic input control of a human machine interface, wherein the communication module is configured to transmit the dynamic input to an external device separate from the disinfection and human machine interface integrated circuit, and wherein the communication module is configured to receive feedback from the external device, wherein the disinfection and human machine interface integrated circuit adapts the feedback control signals based, at least in part, on the received feedback from the external device.