US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on Nov. 3 for "Adapter for connecting an endoscope with an air supply connector of a storage cabinet, storage cabinet, endoscope storage system and methods for connecting and disconnecting an adapter to a storage cabinet" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,052, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Adapter for connecting an endoscope with an air supply connector of a storage cabinet, storage cabinet, endoscope storage system and methods for connecting and disconnecting an adapter to a storage cabinet" was invented by Stefan Schroeder (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter including: an air inlet connector configured to be connected to an air supply connector of a storage cabinet; at least one endoscope connector configured to be connected to an endoscope port of an endoscope; and at least one tube connecting the air inlet c...