US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ Imaging on March 25 for "Medical imaging scope with capacitive sensor units" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,110, issued on March 25, was assigned to KARL STORZ Imaging Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Medical imaging scope with capacitive sensor units" was invented by Larry Oslie (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Jonathan Bormet (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a camera head having a capacitive sensing unit disposed along the outer surface of the camera head. The capacitive sensing unit includes a plurality of capacitive sensors. The camera head includes an electronic controller operable to process an actuation of the plurality of capacitive sensors to control a camera control function and determine a medical procedure and/or t...