US Patent Issued to ASP Global Manufacturing on July 7 for "Reprocessing case" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,768, issued on July 7, was assigned to ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Reprocessing case" was invented by Kenneth S. Kramer (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.) and Samuel J. Rhodes (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reprocessing case may be used to assist in reprocessing an instrument, such as an endoscope in an automated reprocessor. The reprocessing case may include various features such that the case may include and be transitioned between a closed configuration, an open configuration, and a disinfection configuration. In particular the reprocessor may transition the case to a disinfection configuration ...