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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2023
Applicant:

Olympus Winter & Ibe Gmbh, Hamburg, DE;

Inventors:

Anne Kwik, Berlin, DE;

Fabian Stopp, Berlin, DE;

Jens Krüger, Zeuthen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/12 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/1206 (2013.01); A61B 34/25 (2016.02); G06F 21/1077 (2023.08); A61B 2018/00589 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00601 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00607 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00702 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00767 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for operating an electrosurgical generator and an according electrosurgical generator. Electrosurgical generator is configured to supply power to electrosurgical instrument. Electrosurgical generator is identifiable by serial number and includes at least two modules. Modules are embodied as hardware and or software modules. Each module functions according to operation mode wherein at least partially specified by license key. In initializing process of electrosurgical generator, identification information being indicative of serial number is available or made available at at least one module and license information being indicative of license key is available or made available at at least one module. Each module provides any identification and license information being available or being made available to it to at least one other module. At least one module generates a link of identification and license information and provides generated link to each of the other modules. Each module stores generated link.


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