US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 24 for "Endoscope system and phototherapy method having a correction operation when an observation mode is set to a thermal suppression mode" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,190, issued on June 24, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system and phototherapy method having a correction operation when an observation mode is set to a thermal suppression mode" was invented by Chikashi Ota (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes: a light source configured to emit white light having wavelength distribution of white color; an optical element configured to block at least light emitted from the light source, the at least light having wavelength band corresponding to a light absorption band with a highest peak from among light absorption bands of a ...