ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,972, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Syntegon Technology GmbH (Waiblingen, Germany).
"System for transporting loose sterile closure elements" was invented by Stefan Nagler (Unterschneidheim, Germany), Ulrich KrauB (Ilshofen, Germany), Markus Ilgenfritz (Feuchtwangen, Germany) and Albrecht Kuhnle (Crailsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system (10) for transporting loose sterile closure elements (12) from the surroundings (14) of an isolator (16) into an interior (18) of the isolator, comprising a container (24) for storing a stock quantity of closure elements in the surroundings of the isola...