Patent ID: 8334521

Claim:
Medical instrument disinfecting system comprising: a disinfecting chamber adapted to implement an instrument disinfection cycle of an instrument, wherein the instrument has an active part and a cable connection and respective identification data identifying said instrument carried on the cable connection, means for acquiring the respective identification data of the instrument subjected to the disinfection cycle (i) at a first time during a first time period from an introduction of said instrument into the chamber to a start of the disinfection cycle, and (ii) at a second time during a second time period from an end of the disinfection cycle to a removal of said instrument from the chamber, wherein the identification data acquiring means is associated with the disinfecting chamber, means for acquiring characterization data of the disinfection cycle, and means for associating the identification data of each instrument subjected to the disinfection cycle and the characterization data of the disinfecting cycle, so as to generate traceability data of the disinfection of the instrument subjected to the disinfection cycle in the disinfection chamber.