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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,816, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Hachioji, Japan).

"Imaging system, endoscope system, and control device" was invented by Hideaki Mizoguchi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system includes a camera device and a control device connected to each other by a power source line, a video signal line, and a ground line. An image sensor of the camera device receives, as a distal end voltage, a power source voltage output from the control device to the power source line. An output circuit of the camera device outputs a digital signal indicating a value of the distal end voltage t...