ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,195, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Method for automatic and sterile-container-specific detection of sterilisation cycles carried out by a sterile container" was invented by Lukas Boehler (Furtwangen, Germany), Matthias Henke (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Mateusz Daniol (Kozlow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic and sterile-container-specific detection of sterilization cycles carried out by a sterile container, and a system for carrying out the method. A temperature acting on the sterile container is detected using a temperature measurement device associated wit...