US Patent Issued to BEIJING WESTON ASIA-PACIFIC OPTO-ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT on May 12 for "Lighting source and endoscope" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,578, issued on May 12, was assigned to BEIJING WESTON ASIA-PACIFIC OPTO-ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Lighting source and endoscope" was invented by Xiaohua Liu (Beijing), Hong Li (Beijing) and Xiatian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting source and an endoscope are provided, and the lighting source is used for the endoscope. The lighting source includes a light-emitting diode (LED) chip and a substrate; the LED chip is arranged on and fixedly connected to the substrate, and is packaged into the lighting source; and the lighting source is circular ring-shaped or arc-shaped. The endoscope includes an endos...