US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Jan. 27 for "Data transmission via rotating interfaces in endoscopic applications" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,015, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Data transmission via rotating interfaces in endoscopic applications" was invented by Peter Schwarz (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical scope (10) comprises an objective (42) forming an image of an object; an image sensor (44) capturing the image formed by the objective (42) and providing an image signal representing the captured image; a serializer (50) comprising a two-conductor first interface (52) and a multi-conductor second interface (54) connected to the image sensor (44); a first sliding contact (71) and a second s...