US Patent Issued to Novelbeam Technology on April 15 for "Device for anti-fog endoscope system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,421, issued on April 15, was assigned to Novelbeam Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device for anti-fog endoscope system" was invented by Rongzhuang Mao (Shandong, China), Changming Gu (Shandong, China), Mingzhi Li (Shandong, China), James Zheng (Fremont, Calif.), Anmin Zheng (Fremont, Calif.) and Daniel Cifelli (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for maintaining an optical path of an optical imaging system free of fog includes an elongated member having a distal end and a proximal end, a near-infrared (NIR) light-absorbing optical window disposed at the distal end, and an optical system disposed along the opt...