US Patent Issued to Aesculap on July 15 for "Method for capturing and documenting a work cycle of sterilizable medical product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,063, issued on July 15, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Method for capturing and documenting a work cycle of sterilizable medical product" was invented by Frederick Lenzenhuber (Tuttlingen, Germany), Tanja Hahn (Immendingen/Zimmern, Germany) and Gerhard Faller (Braeunlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes steps for capturing and documenting a work cycle of a sterilizable medical product which is preferably held in a holding apparatus and which communicates, preferably wirelessly, with an external data-processing device, which is preferably disposed in the holding and/or storing apparatus....