US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, HAMAMATSU MEDICAL SOLUTIONS on June 17 for "Rigid scope device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,359, issued on June 17, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Shizuoka, Japan) and HAMAMATSU MEDICAL SOLUTIONS CORP. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Rigid scope device" was invented by Seiji Yamamoto (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Masaki Orimoto (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single solid-state image sensing device is disposed for a first optical system and a second optical system provided in a rigid endoscope. The first image formed by the first light beam emerging from the observation target and passing through the first optical system and the second image formed by the second ligh...