ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,516, issued on March 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Cooling device of endoscope" was invented by Masaaki Watanabe (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cooling device of an endoscope device. The cooling device includes: a box; a first communicating hole that is a hole provided in the box; a second communicating hole that is a hole provided in the box; a second fan that is provided at the second communicating hole, the second fan being configured to guide gas to an exterior of the box through the second communicating hole to generate an airflow in the box, the gas having introduced into the box fr...