ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,256, issued on July 14.
"Rack for surgical instrument cleaning" was invented by Sidney Pulitzer Jr. (New Orleans).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a rack device designed to improve the cleaning process of surgical instruments by efficiently holding many surgical instruments at once. The rack is designed to hold surgical instruments by their finger rings in an open configuration for ease of cleaning the instrument. The racks include end stops on each arm allowing the rack to be turned upside down without the instruments sliding off for better access to the instrument's jaws during manual cand ultrasonic cleaning....