US Patent Issued to ASP Global Manufacturing on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and method for sterilizing medical devices" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,594, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH (Switzerland).

"Apparatus and method for sterilizing medical devices" was invented by Brian J. Thompson (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Jacob S. Childs (Los Angeles), Chunhui Xie (Hebei, China), Marco A. Mangiaterra (La Habra, Calif.), Darius D. Eghbal (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Margaret D. Shaffer (San Clemente, Calif.), Jeremy M. Yarwood (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Benjamin M. Fryer (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilizing cabinet performs a method of processing a medical device, such as a used medical device or an otherwise non-sterile medical device. The method ...