US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Dec. 16 for "Image pickup apparatus, endoscope, and method of manufacturing image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,557, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus, endoscope, and method of manufacturing image pickup apparatus" was invented by Mitsuru Hagihara (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes a lens unit and an image pickup unit. The lens unit includes a plurality of optical devices including a first optical device that includes: a first glass substrate having a first principal surface and a second principal surface and a groove leading to the second principal surface from the first principal surface in at least one of four corners on an outer edge; first resin ...