US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on March 18 for "Central control apparatus, central control system, and control method for controlled devices" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,076, issued on March 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Central control apparatus, central control system, and control method for controlled devices" was invented by Akane Kitsunai (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central control apparatus that centrally controls a plurality of medical devices as controlled devices includes a processor. The processor is configured to: set a function allocated to one or more switches provided in the controlled devices, detect occurrence of an error of the controlled devices and a state of the occurred error, and change, based on a detection result of the error, the functio...