US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE on April 7 for "Foot switch device and medical device system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,577, issued on April 7, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Foot switch device and medical device system" was invented by Andreas Horlle (Berlin) and Antonios Patelis (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foot switch device, includes: a housing; a pedal, the pedal being moveably attached to the housing; and a switching circuit; the switching circuit being configured to detect movement of the pedal relative to the housing, and to issue a switching signal when such movement is detected; wherein the switching circuit includes a coil arranged in the housing and a yoke attached to the pedal, so that movement ...