ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,874, issued on June 17, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Activator system for biological indicator" was invented by Kevin D. Landgrebe (Woodbury, Minn.), G. Marco Bommarito (Stillwater, Minn.), Wensheng Xia (Woodbury, Minn.), Timothy A. Kohman (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Timothy J. Nies (Stillwater, Minn.) and Nicholas R. Powley (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assessing efficacy of a sterilization process is disclosed. The system includes a biological indicator, a receptacle configured to receive the biological indicator, an actuator mechanism, and a sensing system op...