ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,779, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope and endoscope system" was invented by Takuji Suzuki (Hachioji, Japan) and Kazuhiko Hino (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes, in a distal end frame constituting a distal end portion, an objective optical unit including a voice coil motor that moves a moving lens frame forward and backward in a direction of an optical axis by using a plurality of magnets arranged on a periphery of the moving lens frame, and a plurality of internal components made of magnetic material and arranged around the objective optical unit. At least one of...