US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Nov. 18 for "Endoscope system, method of scanning lumen using endoscope system, and endoscope" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,752, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system, method of scanning lumen using endoscope system, and endoscope" was invented by Jun Hane (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes: an insertion body inserted into a lumen; an objective optical system that is provided in the insertion body and acquires light from a subject as subject light; an image sensor that performs imaging based on the subject light to acquire a captured image within a field of view; a turning mechanism that causes a distal end of the insertion body to rotate around a reference axis that is an axis of the i...