ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,420, issued on July 15, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Cleaning support system, processing apparatus, and cleaning support method" was invented by Takeshi Nishiyama (Tokyo), Akira Suzuki (Tokyo), Hideyuki Kugimiya (Tokyo) and Yumiko Awau (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on image data obtained by imaging a state of the preliminary cleaning of an endoscope by manual work, a cleaning status determination unit determines whether or not the preliminary cleaning has been performed on the endoscope. A notification control unit generates notification data regarding the determination result in the cleaning status determina...