US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 27 for "Image pickup unit, endoscope, and method of manufacturing image pickup unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,629, issued on May 27, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup unit, endoscope, and method of manufacturing image pickup unit" was invented by Junya Yamada (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup unit includes a stacked device in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape including an external electrode, and a three-dimensional wiring board including a bonding electrode and an alignment mark on a bottom surface of a recess on a first principal surface and a projection, on a side surface, projecting in a first direction parallel to a wall surface of the recess, in which the ex...