Patents Assigned to Adir Jacob
  • Process for dry sterilization of medical devices and materials
    Patent number: 6149878
    Abstract: Articles which it is intended to sterilize are placed into a confined volume and are subjected to neutral species of an electrical discharge while maintaining the volume glowless and substantially field free by interposing a barrier between the articles and the discharge, the barrier being transparent to neutral species and opaque to charged species emanating from the discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Adir Jacob
    Inventors: Adir Jacob, Jonathan Allen Wilder
  • Process for dry sterilization of medical devices and materials
    Patent number: 5897831
    Abstract: Articles which it is intended to sterilize are placed into a confined volume and are subjected to neutral species of an electrical discharge while maintaining the volume glowless and substantially field free by interposing a barrier between the articles and the discharge, the barrier being transparent to neutral species and opaque to charged species emanating from the discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Adir Jacob
    Inventors: Adir Jacob, Jonathan Allen Wilder
  • Process for dry sterilization of medical devices and materials
    Patent number: 5741460
    Abstract: Articles which it is intended to sterilize are placed into a confined volume and are subjected to neutral species of an electrical discharge while maintaining the volume glowless and substantially field free by interposing a barrier between the articles and the discharge, the barrier being transparent to neutral species and opaque to charged species emanating from the discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: Adir Jacob
    Inventors: Adir Jacob, Jonathan Allen Wilder
  • Process and apparatus for dry sterilization of medical devices and materials
    Patent number: 4801427
    Abstract: A process for dry sterilization of medical devices and materials in which these materials are subjected to an electrical discharge in a gaseous atmosphere to produce an active plasma to produce electrically active neutral species for surface sterilization of the devices and materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Adir Jacob
    Inventor: Adir Jacob