US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS on Feb. 18 for "Sterile sealing apparatus" (Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,846, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS Corp. (Solon, Ohio).

"Sterile sealing apparatus" was invented by Jianfeng Zhang (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Rachel Z. Pytel (Newton, Mass.), Jian L. Ding (Stow, Mass.), Anthony P. Pagliaro (Lansdale, Pa.) and Clemens E. Zoellner (Bay City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that include an operation chamber, a plasma generator having at least one plasma head disposed within the operation chamber and in proximity to a profile formed by cutting a piece of tubing, and a mechanical motion module. The plasma generator generates a plasma ...