ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,495, issued on June 17, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope system" was invented by Masaru Mizunaka (Hino, Japan), Yasunobu Iga (Tachikawa, Japan), Takeshi Suga (Hino, Japan) and Chikashi Ota (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system according to the present invention includes: an illumination light source that emits illumination light for illuminating an object; a therapeutic light source that emits therapeutic light for causing a photoreactive reagent accumulated in a treatment target site to react; a guide light source that emits guide light having a wavelength shorter than a wavelength band...