ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,890, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Video endoscope for fluorescence imaging" was invented by Sebastian Berkner (Groenwohld, Germany), Andreas Mueckner (Schwarzenbek, Germany), Mario Bock (Hamburg, Germany) and Konrad Anders (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video endoscope for fluorescence imaging, with an elongate shaft and video camera at a distal end. The video camera includes an objective lens system and image acquisition system. The objective lens system configured to receive light and/or reflect from and to transmit the received light towards the image acquisiti...