ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,881, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"System for obtaining clear endoscope images" was invented by John T. Shen (San Jose, Calif.), Benjamin H. Feingold (Tucson, Ariz.), Vasudev Nambakam (San Jose, Calif.), Amit A. Mahadik (San Jose, Calif.) and Brandon B. Hunter (Hollister, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining a clear endoscopic image includes emitting light from an endoscope into a body cavity; receiving light reflected from the body cavity at a variable-attenuator, the variable-attenuator comprising a plurality of light attenuating elements that are aligned with a plurality...