US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 27 for "Image pickup device and endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,944, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup device and endoscope" was invented by Hideyuki Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuro Asaoka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup device that is provided at a distal end portion of an insertion unit of an endoscope having a longitudinal axis, includes: a first lens barrel that houses a first optical system; a second lens barrel that is disposed on a proximal end side of the first lens barrel, houses a second optical system on which light having passed through the first optical system is to be incident, and includes a second lens barre...