US Patent Issued to Integrated Endoscopy on March 25 for "Endoscope designs and methods of manufacture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,544, issued on March 25, was assigned to Integrated Endoscopy Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Endoscope designs and methods of manufacture" was invented by Siddharth Balvantrai Desai (Tustin, Calif.), Kais Almarzouk (Irvine, Calif.) and Giuseppe Sacca (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise endoscopes (e.g., arthroscopes) for viewing inside a cavity of a body. The endoscopes may include a tip, at least one solid-state emitter such as light emitting diode (LED), located at the distal end of the endoscope, an elongated member. The elongated member may include a plurality of lenses for transmitting light r...