ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,423, issued on June 23, was assigned to Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG (Ingelfingen, Germany).

"System for conveying a sterilization medium and method of providing a sterilization medium" was invented by Johann Gunnesch (Ingelfingen, Germany), Alexej Iwaschkin (Ingelfingen, Germany) and Harald Schaefer (Ingelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for conveying a sterilization medium comprises at least two buffer containers for sterilization medium which are arranged so as to be connected in parallel, at least one fluid flow controller, to which each of the buffer containers is fluidically coupled, and a pressure media ...