US Patent Issued to ASP Global Manufacturing on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and method to measure concentration of disinfectant in medical device reprocessing system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,590, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and method to measure concentration of disinfectant in medical device reprocessing system" was invented by Yan Fang (Irvine, Calif.), Nick N. Nguyen (Silverado, Calif.) and Kaitao Lu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument processor includes an enclosure, a liquid distribution system, and a disinfectant concentration measuring subsystem. The enclosure is configured to hold a medical instrument. The liquid distribution system is configured to deliver a disinfection solution to a medical instrument w...