US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Feb. 18 for "Medical system, energy control method, and processor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,082, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical system, energy control method, and processor" was invented by Yasuo Tanigami (Tokyo), Yusuke Otsuka (Yokohama, Japan), Noriko Kuroda (Machida, Japan), Yuji Kishimoto (Kodaira, Japan), Hideyuki Kasahara (Hamura, Japan), Kazue Tanaka (Sagamihara, Japan), Kunihide Kaji (Hachioji, Japan), Satoshi Takekoshi (Hachioji, Japan), Yoshitaka Honda (Hachioji, Japan) and Takaaki Igarashi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system can include a light source configured to generate excitation light; and a processor including a memory, the processor: control...