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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Klaus Irion, Emmingen-Liptingen, DE;
Jürgen Rudischhauser, Tuttlingen, DE;
Assignee:
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 ;
Abstract
An endoscope comprising at least one sensing and recording device disposed in the interior of the endoscope, which detects at least one ambient parameter such as temperature, pressure, humidity, irradiation, other ambient conditions and/or shock or impact loads which the endoscope is exposed to, where the information recorded by the sensing and recording device may be extracted from the outside or transmitted to the outside of the endoscope without disassembly of the endoscope.