US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Dec. 2 for "Optical unit, manufacturing method for optical unit, and endoscope" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,444, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical unit, manufacturing method for optical unit, and endoscope" was invented by Kazuya Maeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical unit includes a transparent first substrate, a transparent second substrate, a transparent first projection forming a part of an optical path, and a first aperture configured by black resin filled in a periphery of the first projection between the first substrate and the second substrate."

The patent was filed on Aug. 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/899,727.

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