US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Dec. 9 for "Light source device, observation system, and color-balance correction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,473, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Light source device, observation system, and color-balance correction method" was invented by Koji Matsumoto (Tokyo), Masahiro Nishio (Tokyo) and Kazuto Fujiwara (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source device includes light sources, a light output unit, optical filters, temperature sensors detecting current temperatures of the sources, light quantity sensors detecting current light quantities of light beams before traveling through the filters, a storage, and a processor. The storage stores first correlation information between the tem...