ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,419, issued on June 23, was assigned to VIOBAC ApS (Valby, Denmark).

"Sterilisation device for sterilising a section of a catheter tube and a method for sterilising a section of a catheter tube" was invented by Kasper Koppen (Valby, Denmark), Mads Orbaek Andersen (Frederiksberg, Denmark) and Andrim Halili (Copenhagen S, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilisation device for sterilising a section of a catheter tube includes a casing including a proximal end, a distal end, an attachment portion, a sterilisation chamber, and a through hole extending through the attachment portion and the sterilisation chamber, the through hol...