US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on July 14 for "Reversal system for a surgical instrument" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,028, issued on July 14, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Reversal system for a surgical instrument" was invented by Jianxin Zhao (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reversal system for a surgical instrument including: first and second outer achromats each having, first and second lenses, and first and second inner achromats arranged between the first and second outer achromats. Each of the first and second inner achromats having first and second lenses. A first pair of the first outer achromat and the first inner achromat being arranged symmetrically with respect to a second pair of the se...