US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Oct. 21 for "Image pickup unit, endoscope, and method of manufacturing image pickup unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,513, issued on Oct. 21, 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 three-dimensional wiring board including a recess on a first principal surface, in which a wall surface of the recess has an inclination angle of an upper region that is smaller than an inclination angle of a lower region; a stacked device disposed in the recess, the stacked device including an optical system and an image pickup device; and resin disposed in a gap between...