/Packaging Facilitating Sterile Connections
Abstract

Packaging may be designed to allow for the forced connection of separate parts without breaching the sterile barrier of the packaging. A component holder housed within sterile packaging may hold device parts such that the device parts can shipped and stored separated and can be pushed together to create a sterile connection between the parts while the parts are housed within the packaging.

Full Text

What is claimed is:

Packaging may be designed to allow for the forced connection of separate parts without breaching the sterile barrier of the packaging. A component holder housed within sterile packaging may hold device parts such that the device parts can shipped and stored separated and can be pushed together to create a sterile connection between the parts while the parts are housed within the packaging.
Timeline
Filed
06/16/2026
Published
10/01/2026
Granted
Not Available
IPC Codes(2)
A61B 50/39:the containers containing antimicrobial, antiviral or disinfectant agents
A61B 50/30:Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments (for wound clamps A61B 17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B 17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B 42/40)