Patent ID: 7570758

Claim:
A protective sleeve for disposition over a handset of a telephone to isolate a user of the handset from microbial contamination on the telephone handset without interference with voice communication with the protective sleeve thereon, the protective sleeve comprising: a) an elongate protective sleeve for receiving the handgrip of a telephone handset and having a shape generally conforming to that of the handset; b) the sleeve also being sized and shaped to generally receive a mouthpiece of the handset and also an earpiece of the handset without any stretching or adjustability to conform to the size and shape of the handset; c) the sleeve being formed of a relatively thin-walled material, having a thickness within the range of 0.7 mils to about 0.05 mils, so that the material is capable of being folded or bent with respect to itself, and still being of sufficiently thin-walled construction to allow voice transmission to the mouthpiece of the telephone wherein a material forming the sleeve is impregnated with a microbicide to aid in the destruction of a microbial agent on the handset.