ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,286, issued on March 4, was assigned to Integrated Endoscopy Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Cordless disposable endoscope" was invented by Andrew Ryan Sharp (Irvine, Calif.) and Siddharth Balvantrai Desai (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cordless endoscope assembly includes a housing, an endoscope tube and an eyepiece. Electronics are housed in the housing and operable to operate one or more light sources in the endoscope, the electronics including one or more batteries and a printed circuit board. The housing includes a connector configured to removably couple with a cannula connector of a cannula when the endoscope ...