US Patent Issued to Aesculap on July 28 for "Double encoding device for inside and outside container encoding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,942, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Double encoding device for inside and outside container encoding" was invented by Stephanie Auber (Tuttlingen, Germany), Thomas-Erwin Kahler (Seitingen-Oberflacht, Germany), Uwe Schaz (Neuhausen, Germany), Roland-Alois Hoegerle (Tuttlingen, Germany), Frederick Lenzenhuber (Tuttlingen, Germany), Ralf Pfister (Trossingen, Germany), Saul Dufoo Ochoa (Tuttlingen, Germany), Simone Hermle (VS-Villingen, Germany), Martin Machill (Rietheim-Weilheim, Germany) and Andre Buerk (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical sterile goods contai...