US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Sept. 9 for "Image pickup unit and endoscope applying the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,829, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup unit and endoscope applying the same" was invented by Yuichi Wataya (Akiruno, Japan), Tetsuta Hanawa (Hachioji, Japan) and Sho Saito (Akishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup optical system including an optical axis; an image pickup device; a first electric substrate on which the image pickup device is mounted; a second electric substrate formed integrally with the first electric substrate and configured to surround peripheries of the image pickup optical system and the image pickup device...