US Patent Issued to Stryker on Dec. 30 for "Autoclavable endoscope for endoscopic imaging systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,873, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Autoclavable endoscope for endoscopic imaging systems" was invented by Wenjie Deng (San Jose, Calif.), Candice Pack (San Jose, Calif.) and Michelle Sun (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes a connection portion for connecting the endoscope to a camera head; a needle assembly; a sleeve that is fixed relative to the needle assembly; a focusing optic assembly housed within the sleeve and comprising at least one optical component, the focusing optic assembly being translatable relative to the sleeve for adjusting a focus of the endos...