US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Feb. 25 for "Imaging device, endoscope system, and imaging method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,436, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device, endoscope system, and imaging method" was invented by Keisuke Ogawa (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a camera unit and a control unit. A first power source voltage is transferred from the control unit to the camera unit by a power source line and is input into the camera unit as a second power source voltage. The camera unit is configured to output a video signal, a reference signal having a reference voltage, and a voltage signal in accordance with the second power source voltage to a video signal...