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US 11,446,108 B2Granted
Product packaging
AssigneeMedtronic MiniMed, Inc.
InventorsEric Allan Larson, Rajiv Shah
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Abstract
A product allows gaseous manufacturing by-products to be vented from the inside a sealed package tray. An exemplary method for packaging a device includes sealing the device inside a package tray with a gas-permeable sealing material, resulting in a sealed package tray. The sealing material allows volatile substances to vent from inside the sealed package tray to outside the sealed package tray.
Claims16
A method for packaging a device, the method comprising:
- placing the device directly on a package tray;
- providing a cover having a periphery, wherein the cover is formed from a gas-permeable material at least along the periphery;
- sealing the device inside the package tray with the cover, resulting in a sealed package tray, wherein the gas-permeable material along the periphery of the cover is directly sealed to the package tray and wherein the gas-permeable material of the cover allows volatile substances to vent from the device inside the sealed package tray to outside the sealed package tray;
- sterilizing the device after sealing the device inside the package tray, wherein sterilizing the device comprises radiating the sealed package tray with sterilizing energy.
1 more element
A method for packaging a device, the method comprising:
- placing the device in a package tray, wherein the package tray defines an opening;
- sealing the device inside the package tray with a cover consisting of a gas-permeable sealing material, resulting in a sealed package tray, wherein the
- cover completely covers the opening;
- and
- venting volatile substances from the device inside the sealed package tray to outside the sealed package tray;
- sterilizing the device after sealing the device inside the package tray, wherein sterilizing the device comprises radiating the sealed package tray with sterilizing energy.
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A product comprising:
- a package tray;
- a device comprising glucose oxidase enzyme in the package tray;
- a cover formed from a gas-permeable sealing material having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface of the cover is directly coupled to the package tray at a sealing perimeter of the cover to form a sealed package tray, wherein the cover includes no holes from the inner surface to the outer surface within the sealing perimeter, and wherein no barrier is located between the device and the cover such that the gas-permeable sealing material of the cover allows volatile substances to vent from the glucose oxidase enzyme inside the sealed package tray to outside the sealed package tray;
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- where in the device is sterilized after being sealed inside the package tray, wherein sterilizing the device comprises radiating the sealed package tray with sterilizing energy.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.