US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Feb. 24 for "Endoscope cleaning management system, endoscope cleaning management method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,265, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope cleaning management system, endoscope cleaning management method, and recording medium" was invented by Yoshiko Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning apparatus management unit manages the utilization status of a first cleaning apparatus that can clean an endoscope that has been manually cleaned in a procedure in which one or more steps are skipped and the utilization status of a second cleaning apparatus that can clean an endoscope that has been manually cleaned by performing all the steps. A reception unit receives step information indicating ...