ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,459, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Endoscope" was invented by Morten Sorensen (Ballerup, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope including an optical assembly including a two-part lens barrel and accommodating a lens stack including lenses and spacers in fixed relationship with each other to transmit incident light onto an image sensor. A first lens barrel part includes an essentially tubular body having an inwardly extending ledge adapted to engage the lens stack and being surrounded by a first circumferential wall part having a first predetermined height. The lens stack includes a fir...