ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,629, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope light source device and light quantity adjusting method" was invented by Motoki Tabata (Akishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope light source device includes: a box that is connectable to a light guide of an endoscope; a first light source configured to emit light of a first wavelength band; a second light source configured to emit light of a second wavelength band; a multiplexer configured to multiplex the light emitted by the first light source and the light emitted by the second light source; a diffuser configured to diffuse part of the li...