US Patent Issued to GI SCIENTIFIC on March 11 for "Conductive optical element" (Virginia, Missouri, California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,753, issued on March 11, was assigned to GI SCIENTIFIC LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Conductive optical element" was invented by Scott Miller (Arlington, Va.), Frank Carter (Wormleysburg, Pa.), Adnan Merchant (Fremont, Calif.) and Carl Gauger (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device having an optical element with a conductive coating. The device may include an optical element, a conductive material and at least one connector. The conductive material is disposed on at least a portion of the optical element. The optical element, for example, may be an object lens of an endoscope or an optical coupler. The connectors (acting ...