ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,685, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Xenocor Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Medical borescopes and related tip assemblies" was invented by John Langell (Salt Lake City) and Lane Brooks (Highland, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laparoscopes and other medical borescopes. In some embodiments, a laparoscope may comprise an electrically conductive portion and a shield portion configured to provide electromagnetic interference shielding for the electrically conductive portion. A tip assembly may be positioned at a distal end of the laparoscope, which tip assembly may comprise an image sensor configured to take images through a distal en...