ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,555, issued on May 27, was assigned to EndoChoice Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Endoscope system with multiple connection interfaces to interface with different video data signal sources" was invented by Idan Levy (Hadera, Israel), Roei Atias (Kiryat Ata, Israel) and Golan Salman (Atlit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Endoscopes having a tip section with viewing elements coupled to a CMOS image sensor and/or a CCD image sensor for transforming light captured by the viewing element into digital and/or analog signals are described. A main connector is coupled with the tip section for transmitting the signals to a main control unit of...