ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,466, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system and operation method therefor" was invented by Teppei Yamaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor generates an endoscopic image in a frame for calculating a light amount, calculates a light emission amount that is an amount of illumination light, in which brightness of the endoscopic image is a target brightness, stores the light emission amount as a storage light emission amount, selects the latest storage light emission amount as a designated light emission amount from among one or more storage light emission amounts in accordan...