ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,686, issued on June 24, was assigned to EndoChoice Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Multi-viewing element endoscope" was invented by Avi Levy (Herzliya, Israel), Yaniv Kirma (Karcur, Israel) and Moshe Levi (Ganey Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided herein a tip section of a multi-viewing element endoscope, the tip section comprising: two or more side-pointing viewing elements positioned at or in proximity to a distal end of said tip section, wherein each of said two or more side-pointing viewing elements having a discrete illuminator associated therewith, wherein the field of view provided by the two or more side-p...