US 11,717,371 B2
Instrument protector backer card
Craig Ford, Marina del Rey, CA (US); Guy Brent Phipps, Long Beach, CA (US); Robert James Jones, Cedar Park, TX (US); and William Lawrence Patton, III, Rancho Mirage, CA (US)
Assigned to SterileBits, Inc., Kemah, TX (US)
Filed by SterileBits, Inc., Marina Del Rey, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/160,816.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/969,267, filed on Feb. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0236225 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 50/30 (2016.01); B65D 75/52 (2006.01); A61B 17/28 (2006.01); A61B 90/90 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 50/30 (2016.02) [B65D 75/525 (2013.01); A61B 17/28 (2013.01); A61B 90/90 (2016.02)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sterilizable backer card for protecting a medical instrument, comprising:
a support member having a strap formed integrally therewith for holding the removable medical instrument to the support member and shield tab slots formed in the support member; and
a shield member connected to an end of the support member along a fold and movable between a non-deployed position extending away from the support member and a deployed position folded over the support member, the shield member including tabs insertable into the shield tab slots of the support member to hold the shield member over the support member in spaced apart relation thereto and form a pocket, the support member and a free end of the shield member spaced apart from the support member cooperate to define an opening of the pocket, the pocket opening being sized and configured to receive medical instruments of varying configurations, states of extension and/or sizes within the pocket, the shield member including a sterilant window that enables unobstructed contact of sterilant to the medical instrument within the pocket during sterilization of the medical instrument.