ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,244, issued on March 18, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Mesh tray lid for mesh sterilizing tray and mesh sterilizing tray system" was invented by Dennis Gorz (Tuttlingen, Germany), Bianca Rosin (Tuttlingen, Germany), Eva Streit (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany), Timo Knittel (Wurmlingen, Germany) and Matthias Henke (Fridingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mesh sterilizing tray system and mesh tray lid for a mesh sterilizing tray. The mesh tray lid includes a substantially rectangular plate-like or grid-like basic form which defines an outer side which, when being placed on the mesh sterilizing tray, fac...