US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on May 20 for "Endoscope, distal end portion of endoscope, and insertion portion of endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,108, issued on May 20, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope, distal end portion of endoscope, and insertion portion of endoscope" was invented by Keita Mitsuhashi (Hachioji, Japan), Tsukasa Ota (Hachioji, Japan), Takuto Yoshinaga (Hino, Japan), Wataru Matsuura (Fuchu, Japan) and Motohiko Suzuki (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes an image pickup module having an optical axis that defines a visual field direction and provided with an electric contact, a cable that is disposed on a proximal end side of the image pickup module and transfers an image pickup signal generated by the image pi...