ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,775, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).

"Medical observation system, control device, and control method" was invented by Hiroshi Ushiroda (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a medical observation system, a control device, and a control method that are configured to prevent flickering of a portion to be observed of an object to be observed and reduce the size of the device. The medical observation system 1 includes an image sensor 212, a second control unit 94 that causes a light source device 3 to simultaneously emit second visible light and ...