US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Sept. 9 for "Imaging device and endoscope system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,828, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device and endoscope system" was invented by Takaharu Tani (Hachioji, Japan), Keisuke Ogawa (Hachioji, Japan) and Yasunari Harada (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a camera unit and a control unit. The camera unit includes an image sensor. The control unit includes a voltage measurement circuit and a voltage adjustment circuit. A first power source voltage is transferred from the control unit to the camera unit by a power source line and is input to the camera unit as a second power source voltage. A video...