US Patent Issued to Olympus Winter & Ibe on May 6 for "Method for reconditioning an endoscope in a reconditioning apparatus, and reconditioning apparatus" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,244, issued on May 6, was assigned to Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for reconditioning an endoscope in a reconditioning apparatus, and reconditioning apparatus" was invented by Jan Batista Andrade (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconditioning apparatus for an endoscope including a controller configured to: supply an interior of the endoscope with a fluid at a predefined pressure; supply one or more channels of the endoscope and an exterior of the endoscope with a rinsing liquid to carry out a reconditioning process using the rinsing liquid; concurrently with the supplying of the rinsing liq...