ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,767, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MU Ltd. (Shiga, Japan).
"Capsule endoscopy system" was invented by Naotake Ohtsuka (Kusatsu, Japan), Yasunori Shindo (Kusatsu, Japan) and Yoshitake Otsuka (Kusatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a capsule endoscopy system that is easy to operate and enables rapid examination. A capsule endoscopy system according to the present invention is a capsule endoscopy system including: a capsule endoscope including a permanent magnet; and an external magnetic field generation device that drives the capsule endoscope, in which the external magnetic field generation device includes thre...