US Patent Issued to Aesculap on March 18 for "Sterile container unit having an information carrier which can be rigidly fixed by means of a closure element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,488, issued on March 18, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Sterile container unit having an information carrier which can be rigidly fixed by means of a closure element" was invented by Stefan Thomas (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Frank Weller (Markkleeberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile container unit for receiving items which are sterilized or are to be sterilized includes a container tray and a container lid that can be coupled to the container tray by a closure element. The closure element can be actuated by a pivoting movement. An information carrier can be interlockingly fastened to the containe...