ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,805, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to OPTIMA pharma containment GmbH (Radolfzell am Bodensee, Germany).
"Insulator apparatus and method for monitoring" was invented by Thomas Kassner (Radolfzell, Germany) and Christian Heuer (Adligenswil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an insulator apparatus (10), in particular for pharmaceutical and/or biotechnological applications, having a manipulation chamber (12), at least one work glove (14) insertable into the manipulation chamber (12), and a sensor (16) for detecting an inserted state of the at least one work glove (14), the at least one work glove (14) ...