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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2020
Advanced Sterilization Products, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Benjamin M. Fryer, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Ali S. Siddiqui, Orange, CA (US);
Fong Shyr Yang, Irvine, CA (US);
Todd Morrison, Dana Point, CA (US);
Advanced Sterilization Products, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a sterilizer includes imaging a load of instruments to obtain an optical image and/or thermal image of the load, and selecting a sterilization cycle to be performed by the sterilizer based on one or more characteristics of the load determined from the image of the load. The characteristics may include the number of instruments, the presence of a diffusion-restricted space, the volume of the load, and the temperature of the load. The method may further include adjusting the sterilization cycle based on the characteristics of the load.