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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2005
Szu-min Lin, Irvine, CA (US);
Paul T. Jacobs, Bicknell, UT (US);
Jenn-hann Wang, Northridge, CA (US);
Robert C. Platt, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Peter C. Zhu, Irvine, CA (US);
Szu-Min Lin, Irvine, CA (US);
Paul T. Jacobs, Bicknell, UT (US);
Jenn-Hann Wang, Northridge, CA (US);
Robert C. Platt, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Peter C. Zhu, Irvine, CA (US);
Ethicon Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for monitoring a cleaning process for a medical instrument, includes the steps of placing the instrument in a cleaning chamber; placing a soil standard in the cleaning chamber; cleaning the instrument and the soil standard with a cleaning solution; and detecting whether soil remains on said soil standard. The soil standard includes two substantially parallel substrates separated with two substantially equal thickness spacers, wherein a gap is formed between the two substrates with soil in the gap.