US Patent Issued to GRONINGER & Co. on April 21 for "Method and system for an automated microbial monitoring process in an isolator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,786, issued on April 21, was assigned to GRONINGER & Co. GMBH (Crailsheim, Germany).

"Method and system for an automated microbial monitoring process in an isolator" was invented by Armin Merz (Ellwangen, Germany) and Roland Engelhard (Aurach-Weinberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automated microbial monitoring in an isolator having a transfer lock, the method comprising the steps: first providing at least one nutrient medium carrier holder at, in each case, a first position within the isolator; second providing at least one nutrient medium carrier within the transfer lock; first robot-assisted transferring of...