US Patent Issued to LOG10 on March 17 for "Method and device for sterilizing medical instruments using a plasma" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,175, issued on March 17, was assigned to LOG10 B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and device for sterilizing medical instruments using a plasma" was invented by Franciscus Maria Verhoeven (Amsterdam), Theo Alex Eduard Van Der Leij (Moergestel, Netherlands), Mirte Peeters (Dongen, Netherlands) and Thijs De Jong (De Bilt, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for sterilizing one or more medical instruments. The device includes a sterilizing chamber for holding the medical instruments to be sterilized, a pressure reducer for selectively reducing the pressure in the chamber, an atmospheric or superatmospheri...