US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE on July 8 for "Surgical device system, method of operating the same, and wireless license tag" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,457, issued on July 8, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Surgical device system, method of operating the same, and wireless license tag" was invented by Stefan Dietrich (Potsdam, Germany) and Felix Kohnecke (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device system, and methods for operating a surgical device system, includes: at least one surgical instrument, a surgical generator for providing surgical energy to at least one surgical instrument, and at least one supplementary device for providing a supplementary function to at least one of the surgical generator and/or the at least one surg...