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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2015
Applicant:
Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gregory Simmons, Georgetown, TX (US);
Brian Riggs, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 2/08 (2006.01); A61L 2/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 2/087 (2013.01); A61L 2/08 (2013.01); A61L 2/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for sterilization of medical devices includes methods for reducing the variance in dose levels over the medical device by either varying the dose levels for each pass before a radiation source, such as an electron beam, or by increasing the number of passes before a radiation source.