US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE on April 15 for "Autoclavable electronics unit for an endoscope, method for producing an autoclavable electronics unit and endoscope" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,379, issued on April 15, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE & GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Autoclavable electronics unit for an endoscope, method for producing an autoclavable electronics unit and endoscope" was invented by Sven Pabst (Giekau, Germany) and Sebastian Jungbauer (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autoclavable electronics unit for an endoscope, the autoclavable electronics unit including: a multi-layer printed circuit board having a rigid region and a flexible region, the rigid region being reinforced by stiffener material to have a greater rigidity than the flexible region and the flexible region is confi...