ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,678, issued on March 24, was assigned to DGSHAPE Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Instrument management device for medical instrument, instrument management system, and instrument management method for medical instrument" was invented by Akinori Sugaya (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masaki Hanajima (Hamamatsu, Japan), Akira Otaka (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takaaki Kokubo (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument management device includes a memory and a processor to execute a program stored in the memory to perform display processing, acquisition processing, and counting processing. In the display processing, in reissuing a steriliza...