Patents Assigned to Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company to 3M Innovative Properties Company
  • Rapid read-out biological indicator
    Publication number: 20030077688
    Abstract: A rapid method of determining the efficacy of a sterilization cycle, and an indicator adapted to perform such method, comprising subjecting to the sterilization cycle a source of active enzyme having activity which correlates with the viability of a microorganism commonly used to monitor sterilization, and incubating the enzyme source, following the completion of the sterilization cycle, with an effective amount of a substrate system capable of reacting with any residual active enzyme to produce a detectable enzyme-modified product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company to 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard R. Matner, William E. Foltz, Lewis P. Woodson