ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,170, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Illumination device for an endoscope" was invented by Hermann Landes (Friedberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope tip having an objective for imaging a field of view, and further having an illumination device for illuminating the field of view. The objective has an angle of view greater than 180deg, the illumination device is arranged around the objective, and the illumination device includes a transparent cap from which the illumination light is emitted into the field of view. The illumination device further includes one or more light emitting devices th...