Olympus Winter and Ibe Assigned Patent

Olympus Winter and Ibe GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, has been assigned a patent (10,354,087) developed by Keber, Florian, Schmidt-Klentzer, Jan Wilbert, Hamburg, Germany, for “removable data storage medium, medical device and method for operating a removable data storage medium.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A removable data storage medium including a serial interface, a non-volatile storage medium, a memory controller controlling data transmission between the serial interface and the non-volatile storage medium, a receiving unit, and a write protection unit, wherein the receiving unit is configured to receive a device identification feature from a medical device that can be connected to the removable data storage medium, and the write protection unit is configured to compare the device identification feature with a predetermined internal criterion, and, if the device identification feature complies with the predetermined internal criterion, permits read and write access from the medical device to the non-volatile storage medium and, if the device identification feature does not comply with the predetermined internal criterion, limits access of the medical device to the non-volatile storage medium to read access.”

The patent application was filed on July 14, 2016 (15/209,963).