"Karl Storz SE & Co. KG is a German medical device company that manufactures and sells endoscopes and surgical instruments. It was founded in Tuttlingen by Dr. Karl Storz in 1945. The company is privately owned; Storz' daughter, Sybill, took over running the company after Storz died in 1996.
The company was one of the first to introduce an endoscope that delivered light using fiber optics, in 1963.: 382 : 3274–75 It also licensed the patent for the Hopkins relay lens and introduced endoscopes including such lenses in 1965.: 3275
As of 2012 it employed around 5,800 people worldwide and had annual sales of around 1 billion euros." - (en.wikipedia.org 17.10.2021)
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