US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Dec. 9 for "Image pickup unit, endoscope, and method for manufacturing image pickup unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,199, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup unit, endoscope, and method for manufacturing image pickup unit" was invented by Takuro Suyama (Ina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup unit includes: an optical unit which includes a plurality of stacked optical elements and in which at least corners of four side surfaces have a notch being notched from an exit surface toward an incidence surface; an image sensor including a light-receiving surface; and resin which includes a first region between the light-receiving surface and the exit surface, the first region bonding the o...