ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,282, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ankon Medical Technologies (Shanghai) Co. LTD (Shanghai) and ANX IP HOLDING PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Capsule endoscope" was invented by Xiaodong Duan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a capsule endoscope, comprising: an enclosure, including an enclosure main body portion and a first end portion, a second end portion; an image acquisition component, disposed within the first end portion; a circuit processing component, disposed within the enclosure main body portion; and an information sending component, the information sending component including an ante...