US Patent Issued to Automated Systems of Tacoma on May 26 for "Automated systems for sterility testing of pharmaceutical fluid products" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,393, issued on May 26, 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 needle holder sized and configured to selectively retain a needle fluidly coupled to a sterility testing filter. The holder is configured to move the needle in a first direction to pierce selected containers dispo...