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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1996
Theodore H Rehmeyer, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
James R Shultz, York, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Apparatus for and method of sterilizing medical and laboratory devices and cleaning contaminants from contact lenses at low voltages, the apparatus including a housing carrying a sterilizing and cleaning well, electrodes, appropriate controls and a power source and the method comprising the steps of positioning a contact lens and an adsorbent so that the adsorbent is disposed between the contact lens and an electric current source, immersing the contact lens, the adsorbent, and the current source in a saline or other appropriate solution, and then applying electric current from the power source through the adsorbent and only over the surface of the contact lens so that contaminants carried by the contact lens migrate to the adsorbent.