US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Sept. 16 for "Endoscope lens unit, endoscope, and manufacturing method of endoscope lens unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,799, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope lens unit, endoscope, and manufacturing method of endoscope lens unit" was invented by Kazuya Maeda (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope lens unit includes a first optical device which includes a first glass plate including a first side surface, a second optical device which includes a second glass plate including a second side surface having the same external dimension as an external dimension of the first side surface, a spacer which includes a third side surface and which defines a distance between the first glass plate and the second...