US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Oct. 7 for "Imaging device, imaging system, scope, endoscope system, and imaging method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,150, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device, imaging system, scope, endoscope system, and imaging method" was invented by Hideki Kato (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first power source voltage transferred from a control unit by a power source line is input to an imaging device as a second power source voltage. The imaging device generates a first voltage in a first period and generates a second voltage in a second period. The imaging device generates a reference voltage. The imaging device outputs a first signal indicating the first voltage and the reference voltage to a ...