US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Dec. 2 for "8-fluoro-4-alkylumbelliferyl Alpha-D-glucopyranoside, biological sterilization indicator including the same and its use in a method of determining efficacy of a sterilization process" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,301, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"8-fluoro-4-alkylumbelliferyl Alpha-D-glucopyranoside, biological sterilization indicator including the same and its use in a method of determining efficacy of a sterilization process" was invented by Stephen B. Roscoe (Woodbury, Minn.), Tonya D. Bonilla (Woodbury, Minn.) and George W. Griesgraber (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-contained biological sterilization indicator comprises: a housing; bacterial spores comprising, and/or capable of producing, an enzyme capable of catalyzing cleavage of an enzyme substrate; and ...