US 12,263,268 B2
Sterilization test pack
G. Marco Bommarito, Stillwater, MN (US); Timothy J. Nies, Stillwater, MN (US); Michael J. Woodson, West St. Paul, MN (US); Andrew K. Hartzell, Hudson, WI (US); Joshua D. Erickson, Blaine, MN (US); and Jonathan C. Fuller, Oakdale, MN (US)
Assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/594,637
Filed by Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/053453
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 25, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/222054, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/842,218, filed on May 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0249725 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 2/28 (2006.01); A61L 2/07 (2006.01); A61L 2/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/28 (2013.01) [A61L 2/07 (2013.01); A61L 2/206 (2013.01); A61L 2/208 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01); A61L 2202/24 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sterilization test pack comprising:
a shell defining an indicator compartment having a volume;
a channel extending between a compartment opening and an exterior opening, the channel being in fluid communication with the indicator compartment through the compartment opening and surrounding atmosphere being in fluid communication with the channel through the exterior opening such that the indicator compartment is in fluid communication with the surrounding atmosphere through the channel, the channel having a length measured between the compartment opening and the exterior opening and a hydraulic radius along the length; and
an indicator disposed in the indicator compartment,
a ratio of the compartment volume to the channel hydraulic radius ranging from 1000 cm2 to 8000 cm2.