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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2019
Creo Medical Limited, Chepstow, GB;
Christopher Paul Hancock, Bath, GB;
Morgan Bryant, Chepstow, GB;
Louis Turner, Chepstow, GB;
Sandra Swain, Chepstow, GB;
Julian Mark Ebbutt, Chepstow, GB;
John Bishop, Chepstow, GB;
Richard Craven, Chepstow, GB;
CREO MEDICAL LIMITED, Chepstow, GB;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a sterilization apparatus which uses thermal or non-thermal plasma to disinfect surgical scoping devices such as endoscopes, gastroscopes, laparoscopes and the like. Aspect of the disclosure provide: (i) an apparatus for sterilizing inside an instrument channel formed with an insertion tube of a surgical scoping device, (ii) a whole-device sterilization apparatus for treating the entire exterior surface of a surgical scoping device, and (iii) an apparatus for cleaning and sterilizing a distal end face of an insertion tube of a surgical scoping device.