Patent ID: 8089030

Claim:
A portable apparatus for warming one or more surfaces of a medical diagnostic or therapeutic instrument, comprising: a housing comprising a heat plate that forms a lower surface of the housing, the heat plate designed to contact a surface of the medical diagnostic or therapeutic instrument; a handle affixed to the housing; wherein the housing contains within: a heating element; a power supplying element that powers the heating element; a power terminal for providing power to the power supplying element; a temperature setting mechanism for setting a predefined temperature value; and a precision temperature regulator that precisely regulates a temperature of the heat plate to not exceed the predefined temperature value by ±2° F. wherein: the heat plate comprises: a first heat plate part that contacts a first surface of the medical diagnostic or therapeutic instrument; and a second heat plate part that is oriented in a substantially different plane than the first heat plate that contacts a second surface of the medical diagnostic or therapeutic instrument; and the heating element is comprised of at least two separate heating element units that includes a top heating element unit proximate and oriented parallel to the first heat plate part and a front heating element unit proximate and oriented parallel to the second heat plate part.