US Patent Issued to STERIS on Sept. 2 for "Reusable tortuous path filters for sterilization containers" (Illinois, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,212, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to STERIS Corp. (Mentor, Ohio).

"Reusable tortuous path filters for sterilization containers" was invented by Jason Cartwright (Libertyville, Ill.), Brandon Toth (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Benjamin Hopwood (Towson, Md.), Bradley Thomas Williams (Mundelein, Ill.), Andrew VanDeWeghe (Grayslake, Ill.) and Atif Yardimci (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilization container for sterilizing medical instruments that includes a body defining an interior volume and a lid connected to the body and configured to seal the interior volume between the lid and the body. The lid includes an exterior filter...