US Patent Issued to WELCH ALLYN on Oct. 14 for "Physical assessment device with coordinated LED drive circuit for image capture" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,095, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to WELCH ALLYN INC. (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.).

"Physical assessment device with coordinated LED drive circuit for image capture" was invented by David M. Babson (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.) and Kenneth V. Coon (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical assessment device includes an instrument head, an optical assembly and an adapter interface member. The instrument head includes an illumination assembly including at least one LED and a drive circuit for powering the at least one LED with a pulse width modulation (PWM) current to achieve a variable brightness of the at least on...