US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE on June 23 for "Surgical equipment socket, surgical generator, surgical system and method for detecting the use of a surgical instrument in a surgical system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,174, issued on June 23, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Surgical equipment socket, surgical generator, surgical system and method for detecting the use of a surgical instrument in a surgical system" was invented by Oliver Kuster (Potsdam, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical equipment socket for a surgical generator for connecting surgical instruments, a surgical system and a method for detecting the use of a surgical instrument in a surgical system, wherein the surgical equipment socket includes a first indicator assembly having a first movable element, and a first detection element; where...