US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for self-checking of an endoscope reprocessing device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,385, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and system for self-checking of an endoscope reprocessing device" was invented by Antonia Weis (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for self-checking of an endoscope reprocessing device having a fluid source, supply channels for supplying the fluid to endoscope channels of an endoscope(s) connected with the supply channels, and a controller for controlling the reprocessing of endoscope(s). Each of the supply channels having a switchable valve configured to block or unblock the supply channel in response to a control signal...