ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,098, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).
"Medical device management system, medical device, relay device, medical device management method and recording medium" was invented by Takeo Suzuki (Hachioji, Japan) and Yasunori Matsui (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection unit has a function of detecting the end of an operation check mode for checking the operation of a medical device and detecting the start of a use mode for using the medical device. A record processing unit records information indicating that the medical device has been used once in a recording unit when the dete...