ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,316, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Transport trolley for surgical instruments" was invented by Sascha Eschborn (Ahrensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport trolley including at least one receiving compartment configured to receive an instrument tray; and one or more of: a pre-cleaning device configured to pre-clean a surgical instrument in the instrument tray, the pre-cleaning device is configured to be connected to the surgical instrument by a coupling; and a pre-cleaning apparatus configured to pre-clean an outside of the surgical instrument."
The patent was fi...