ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,210, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Sterile container with an NFC module" was invented by Lukas Boehler (Furtwangen, Germany), Matthias Henke (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Mateusz Daniol (Kozlow, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile container for sterilizable medical goods includes a receiving space for the medical goods and a data acquisition unit for acquiring parameter data of influencing variables that act on the sterile container. The sterile container includes an NFC module with at least one sensor for acquiring sterility-relevant and/or sterilization-relevant data and ...