A61L 2/28
Devices for testing the effectiveness or completeness of sterilisation or disinfection
Official title: Devices for testing the effectiveness or completeness of sterilisation or disinfection, e.g. indicators which change colour
A61L2/28 (Devices for testing the effectiveness or completeness of sterilisation or disinfection) appears on 941 US grants and 1,161 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2005 | 14 | 28 |
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| 2022 | 40 | 134 |
| 2023 | 53 | 86 |
| 2024 | 54 | 67 |
| 2025 | 83 | 44 |
| 2026 | 30 | 45 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Wireless chipless printed sensor tag for real-time radiation sterilization monitoring29 Sep 2026US 12,748,225 B2Purdue Research Foundation
- Sterilization device25 Aug 2026US 12,714,760 B2HAI Solutions, Inc.
- System and method for determining sanitization status18 Aug 2026US 12,708,689 B2Honeywell International Inc.
- Targeted surface disinfection system with pulsed UV light4 Aug 2026US 12,697,406 B2Solaris Disinfection Inc.
- Medical instrument sterilization backer card4 Aug 2026US 12,697,409 B2SterileBits, Inc.
- Holding device for a sterile product, sterile product, and method for monitoring a sterile product cycle24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283743 A1Aesculap AG
- Portable uv-c disinfection apparatus, method and system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256968 A1UD Innovations, LLC
- Fixed position hybrid germicidal irradiation apparatus, method, and system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256969 A1UD Innovations, LLC
- Determining effectiveness of sterilization procedure from outside the sterilization package20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241057 A1Solventum Intellectual Properties Company
- Systems and methods for monitoring a gas sterilization environment6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224767 A1Sterilmetric Innovations, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Reinforced battery for a surgical instrument1,484US 9,931,118 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2018
- Surgical instrument system comprising an inspection station1,419US 10,045,779 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2018
- Charging system that enables emergency resolutions for charging a battery1,313US 10,182,816 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2019
- Surgical apparatus configured to track an end-of-life parameter1,278US 10,159,483 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2018
- System for monitoring whether a surgical instrument needs to be serviced1,233US 10,321,907 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2019