ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,275, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Turbett Surgical Inc. (Henrietta, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for loading a floor loading sterilizer" was invented by Robert E. Turbett (Penfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sterilizing comprises loading an item to be sterilized into an integrated sterilizing cabinet and sterilizable wheeled case cart, the sterilizing cabinet comprising an interior, the interior being sterilizable, rolling the integrated sterilizable wheeled case cart and sterilizing cabinet into the floor loading sterilizer, wherein rolling the integrated sterilizable wheeled case cart and sterilizing cab...