US Patent Issued to INSURGICAL. on Feb. 11 for "Packaging system for sterile transfer of non-sterile battery" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,264, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to INSURGICAL. INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Packaging system for sterile transfer of non-sterile battery" was invented by Richard Acevedo (Austin, Texas) and Philip Tetzlaff (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device packaging system for securing a sterile medical device, having controlled sterile and non-sterile zones, and features for controlling and maintaining said zones that allow medical personnel to perform a simple and efficient transfer of a non-sterile battery into a sterile powered medical device without compromising the device sterility in a sterile field."

The patent wa...