US Patent Issued to SolidToo on Sept. 23 for "Monitoring of steam quality during sterilization with improved temperature control" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,983, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SolidToo B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Monitoring of steam quality during sterilization with improved temperature control" was invented by Klaas Kopinga (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for detecting a non-condensable gas including a tube having an open end and a closed end, the tube and the closed end being closed with respect to a fluid, the open end open to allow the fluid to move into and out of the tube, and the tube configured to allow a condensed portion of the fluid to be removed from the tube by gravitation. The device includes a heat sink configured ...