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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
Applicant:
Dana Products, Inc., Franklin Park, IL (US);
Inventor:
Harry Bala, South Barrington, IL (US);
Assignee:
American Sterilizer Company, Mentor, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 31/22 (2006.01); A61L 2/28 (2006.01); G01K 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 2/28 (2013.01); G01K 1/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sterilization test strip includes a temperature sensitive material, which liquefies and travels along a wicking element when exposed to steam at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined period time to reach a marker to indicate that an acceptable level of sterilization has not occurred.