US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on July 8 for "Control apparatus, endoscope positioning state determination method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,297, issued on July 8, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, endoscope positioning state determination method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Jin Ohara (Hachioji, Japan), Yuichiro Hashimoto (Hachioji, Japan) and Keigo Takahashi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit of a reprocessor main body includes a processor, the processor being configured to acquire a plurality of observation images, image pickup angles of which regarding a positioning state of an endoscope positioned in an endoscope reprocessor are different, select an image showing a first part that is a predet...