US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on Nov. 3 for "Fluid distributor for a reprocessing device for reprocessing a surgical instrument" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,402, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Fluid distributor for a reprocessing device for reprocessing a surgical instrument" was invented by Mathis Jonathan Hoermann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid distributor for use with a reprocessing device for reprocessing a surgical instrument having a plurality of channels, including: a routing body having a plurality of connections corresponding to the channels; and a switching body movably disposed in the routing body, the switching body having an interior supply line connected to a fluid reservoir for selectively providing...