US Patent Issued to R-Solution Medical on July 22 for "Device and method for folding an instrument set in a package" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,566, issued on July 22, was assigned to R-Solution Medical BV (Barneveld, Netherlands).

"Device and method for folding an instrument set in a package" was invented by Mariska Sabine Van Der Vliet (Hilversum, Netherlands) and Niels Paul Emerentiana Welling (Oosterbeek, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device for folding an instrument tray into a packaging material, comprising a supporting surface for supporting the instrument tray during folding of the instrument tray into the packaging material, a first folding plate and a second folding plate, a movable folding aid for fixing the packaging material over a predefined line p...