ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,767, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ankon Medical Technologies (Shanghai) Co. LTD (Shanghai) and ANX IP HOLDING PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Shielding device, and magnetic control capsule endoscope system" was invented by Kaifei Wang (Shanghai) and Xiaodong Duan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a shielding device and a magnetic control capsule endoscope system. The shielding device is used to shield a ferromagnetic main control member supported by a support, including: a shielding case and a lifting mechanism, where the shielding case is connected to the lifting mechanism, and the lifting me...