US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on April 15 for "Apparatus for sanitizing a fiberoptic endoscope" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,422, issued on April 15, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Apparatus for sanitizing a fiberoptic endoscope" was invented by Shahad Hussien Alsafhi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Nora Fahad Alsudairi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Khalid Abdullah Alhussaini (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for sanitizing a fiberoptic endoscope includes an elongated box with an interior storage chamber and a cleaning piece connected to the exterior of the box. The cleaning piece and the box are arranged in-line with one another and are configured to receive a flexible endoscopic cable of a fiberoptic end...