US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ Endovision on Sept. 16 for "Endoscope and endoscopic system" (American, Swiss, Estonian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,683, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KARL STORZ Endovision Inc. (Charlton, Mass.).

"Endoscope and endoscopic system" was invented by Dashiell Birnkrant (Sutton, Mass.), Michael Kloter (Sturbrigdge, Mass.), Marko Radosevic (Goleta, Calif.), Indrek-Toomas Polluks (Rakvere, Estonia), Pirasanth Sivathasan (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland) and Tyrel Waagen (Douglas, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic system and method for its operation are disclosed. The system comprises a light source, an endoscope with a distal light entrance surface, an image sensor capturing images through the light entrance surface and a rinsing device ...