US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE on July 22 for "Stopcock, plug for a stopcock, and method for producing a plug for a stopcock" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,296, issued on July 22, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Stopcock, plug for a stopcock, and method for producing a plug for a stopcock" was invented by Hannes Miersch (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to flush away local bleeding during surgery with a medical instrument, the instruments are commonly provided with a flushing device. In order to be able to control an inflow and outflow of a flushing liquid, the instruments have a stopcock. In order to achieve the sealing action of the stopcock, the plugs of the stopcock have to be formed with a very high degree of precision. The kno...