US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on April 1 for "Endoscope control device, method of changing wavelength characteristics of illumination light, and information storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,874, issued on April 1, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope control device, method of changing wavelength characteristics of illumination light, and information storage medium" was invented by Seigo On (Hachioji, Japan), Yasunori Morita (Hachioji, Japan) and Masashi Hirota (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope apparatus includes comprises a processor. The processor causes the light source device to produce narrow band light as illumination light, and the narrow band light has a peak wavelength between a wavelength band including a local maximum of a hemoglobin absorption characteristic and a wavel...