US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on Sept. 15 for "Method for documenting a reprocessing of a reusable medical device and assembly therefor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,034, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for documenting a reprocessing of a reusable medical device and assembly therefor" was invented by Sebastian Jungbauer (Hamburg, Germany), Sven Pabst (Giekau, Germany), Hendrik Timmermann (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Mueckner (Schwarzenbek, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for documenting a reprocessing of a reusable medical device. The reusable device comprising at least one temperature sensor configured to provide temperature data representing a temperature of the medical device, a real time clock (RTC) configured to pro...