US Patent Issued to Automated Systems of Tacoma on Aug. 25 for "Automated systems for sterility testing of pharmaceutical fluid products" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,880, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Automated Systems of Tacoma LLC (Tacoma, Wash.).

"Automated systems for sterility testing of pharmaceutical fluid products" was invented by Jordan McDonald (Bonney Lake, Wash.), Steven Ng (Kent, Wash.), Michael Moore (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and Raul A. Passarini (Edgewood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an automated sterility testing assembly that has a plug actuator and a processor configured to determine that at least one pump is finished drawing a pharmaceutical product and a rinsing fluid into a fluid inlet of a test container via tubing. The tubing fluidly...