ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,409, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SterileBits Inc. (Kemah, Texas).
"Medical instrument sterilization backer card" was invented by Craig Ford (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Guy Brent Phipps (Long Beach, Calif.), William Lawrence Patton III (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) and Robert James Jones (Cedar Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument sterilization backer card includes a flap extending from an end of a base and foldable over the base to form an open-ended pocket that receives an end of a shaft of the medical instrument therein. A second flap extends from the base and is foldable over the base to form a shell defini...