US Patent Issued to GRONINGER & Co. on Feb. 17 for "Method for transferring at least one filling needle of a number of filling needles into an aseptic isolator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,053, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GRONINGER & Co. GMBH (Crailsheim, Germany).

"Method for transferring at least one filling needle of a number of filling needles into an aseptic isolator" was invented by Armin Merz (Ellwangen, Germany), Roland Engelhard (Aurach-Weinberg, Germany) and Jens Weinmann (Crailsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transferring at least one filling needle of a number of filling needles into an isolator which has a transfer lock, the method having the following steps: providing a first needle carrier within the transfer lock, said needle carrier carrying the number of filling needle...