ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,672, issued on Dec. 9.

"Rechargeable endoscope assembly" was invented by Jingzhao Sun (Zhengzhou, China), Jinhui Luo (Zhengzhou, China), Qi Zhang (Zhengzhou, China), Guangliang Liu (Zhengzhou, China) and Chao Li (Zhengzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a novel wireless charging device, and belongs to the technical field of industrial endoscopes. The novel wireless charging device includes a base, an endoscope body, and a shell fixedly mounted at one end of the endoscope body; one side of an upper surface of the base is fixedly connected with a bracket; a top end of the bracket is fixedly connect...