US Patent Issued to University of Southampton on July 28 for "Sterilisation of endoscopes" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,193, issued on July 28, was assigned to University of Southampton (Southampton, Great Britain).

"Sterilisation of endoscopes" was invented by Min Kwan Kim (Southampton, Great Britain), Charles William Keevil (Southampton, Great Britain), Rodolphe Christian Herve (Southampton, Great Britain) and Henrike Jakob (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible elongate atmospheric plasma generator for generating a transverse atmospheric plasma within configured for insertion into an internal channel of an elongate endoscope tube, the plasma generator including an elongate body of dielectric material, an elongate firs...