Patents
Certain Jonnat Management Corp. products are protected by U.S. patents. The following information is provided for purposes of patent marking under 35 U.S.C.§ 287(a).

Patented Products
Jonnat Management Corp. compliance-based cleaning device: U.S. Patent Nos. 11,806,199 and 12,491,046.

Method Patents
The following U.S. patents cover methods that may be practiced using the Jonnat Management Corp. compliance-based cleaning device: U.S. Patent Nos. 10,500,016; 10,973,605; and 11,564,771.

Pending Patent Applications
Additional U.S. patent applications relating to the JonnatManagement Corp. compliance-based cleaning device are pending.

Last updated: September 24, 2026

A Note From The Patents Holder

HAI prevention has a documentation asymmetry. Hand hygiene is often monitored — observation programs, electronic dispensers that count actuations, secret-shopper audits. Environmental surface cleaning is monitored — checklists, ATP bioluminescence testing, fluorescent marker audits. Instrument reprocessing is monitored — sterilization logs, biological indicators, load records. Each of these activities generates a record that can be produced later. But stethoscope hygiene does not generate a record although the stethoscope is a documented transmission vector. It touches nearly every patient, and the manual attempted disinfection of it — when it happens at all — leaves no trace. A facility can have a written stethoscope-hygiene policy. It cannot demonstrate adherence to that policy, because adherence produces no artifact. Medical facilities do not merely engage in infection prevention. They have to demonstrate it — to Joint Commission surveyors, to CMS under Conditions of Participation and, for dialysis, the ESRD Conditions for Coverage, to state health department inspectors, to their own internal quality and risk committees, and increasingly to their own liability insurers and counsel. In each of those settings, the operative question is not “do you have a policy” but “show me.” For stethoscope hygiene, the honest answer today is that they cannot show anything. It is a blind spot in the documented infection-prevention record, and sophisticated infection preventionists know it is there.

oeUVre converts an undocumented activity into a recorded one. Every cycle produces a timestamped entry. RFID relates entry with an identified user. The record is retained and can be exported. Recordation parameters also include date, time, cycle time, and cycle completion. This makes stethoscope-hygiene activity auditable. Exported records can be incorporated into a medical facility’s existing quality assurance and performance improvement reporting and can be the basis or action items directed toward non-compliance by clinicians. 

Jonnat Management Corp. Patent Portfolio

Jonnat Management Corp. owns a growing U.S. patent portfolio in compliance-based cleaning/disinfection technology, currently including six issued U.S. patents. The portfolio is built around a practical and commercially important concept: cleaning/disinfection reusable equipment should not only be performed; it should be verifiable. In healthcare and other settings where equipment is shared between users, cleaning/disinfection is a critical step that can be difficult to confirm, document, and manage at scale. Jonnat’s patented technologies bring cleaning/disinfection and compliance documentation together. The issued patents include cleaning/disinfection devices, methods, and system-level data infrastructure that can clean/disinfect equipment, identify what was cleaned/disinfected, associated events with devices, users, and locations, and generate compliance records. The portfolio also includes multiple device architectures and technologies, including UV-based arrangements. Together, the issued patents represent a developing platform for improving cleaning/disinfection accountability, reducing reliance on manual recordkeeping, and supporting more reliable documentation of such activities across individual users, devices, departments, and facilities.

Issued U.S. Patents

U.S. Patent No. 9,918,803 — Compliance-Based Cleaning Device, System and Method (Issued March 20, 2018)

This patent addresses compliance-based cleaning/disinfection in the context of stethoscopes. It describes a cleaning/disinfection device that combines stethoscope cleaning/disinfection with the generation of compliance data, reflecting an early implementation of Jonnat’s broader approach to making such activities verifiable and recordable.

U.S. Patent No. 10,500,016 — Compliance-Based Cleaning Method (Issued December 10, 2019)

This patent extends the portfolio to methods for tracking cleaning/disinfection activity across multiple devices. The technology creates records showing which device cleaned/disinfected which piece of equipment, supporting traceability in facilities where multiple stations or devices may be deployed.

U.S. Patent No. 10,973,605 — Compliance-Based Cleaning Method (Issued April 13, 2021)

This patent adds a user-accountability layer. It relates to cleaning/disinfection methods that associate such activities with the medical practitioner or other user involved in the event — answering not just whether equipment was cleaned/disinfected, but by whom.

U.S. Patent No. 11,564,771 — Compliance-Based Cleaning Method (Issued January 31, 2023)

This patent addresses centralized compliance tracking. It relates to receiving and storing cleaning/disinfection-compliance data from multiple devices in a compliance database, supporting system-level oversight across facilities, departments, or larger organizations.

U.S. Patent No. 11,806,199 — Compliance-Based Cleaning Device (Issued November 7, 2023)

This patent introduces a rotating chamber device architecture. The device receives equipment in a chamber that rotates between open and closed positions, with cleaning/disinfection performed when the chamber is closed. This patent broadens the portfolio’s hardware coverage beyond the original stethoscope-focused device design.

U.S. Patent No. 12,491,046 — Compliance-Based Cleaning Device (Issued December 9, 2025)

This patent builds on the rotating-chamber architecture with LED-based light disinfection. It relates to a cleaning/disinfection device that uses one or more light-emitting diodes to irradiate equipment when the chamber is closed.