US Patent Issued to ASP Global Manufacturing on Nov. 3 for "Medical device sterilization system with plasma-based detection of residual alcohol" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,067, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Medical device sterilization system with plasma-based detection of residual alcohol" was invented by Todd Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes initiating a sterilization process with a sterilizing machine while a medical device is positioned in a sterilization chamber of the sterilizing machine. The method further includes monitoring one or more parameters (e.g., plasma power profile) of the sterilization process to detect whether alcohol is present on or in the medical device. Based on the monito...