Method of delivering liquid sterilant to a sterilizer
CA 2499417 C · Owner: Choperena, Alfredo M. · Inventors: Morrison, Todd; Choperena, Alfredo M.
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A method of delivering a liquid sterilant to a sterilizer involves piercing a cell of a cassette with a first needle having a first lumen flowing a gas into the cell to pressurize the cell relative to a pressure within the first lumen and drive the liquid sterilant out of the cell through the first lumen. The liquid sterilant travels from the lumen to a vaporizer in the sterilizer.
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- Filed March 4, 2005 and granted September 10, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 4, 2025.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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