ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,959, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to EndoChoice Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Multi-focal, multi-camera endoscope systems" was invented by Victor Levin (Haifa, Israel), Golan Salman (Atlit, Israel), Idan Levy (Hadera, Israel) and Uri David (Ness-Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-focal, multi-camera endoscope having a tip section including a first optical assembly for generating a first image of a body cavity; a second optical assembly for generating a second image of a body cavity; at least one illuminator associated with each of the first optical assembly and second optical assembly; and a processing system configur...