ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,996, issued on June 23, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Illumination control device, imaging device, illumination control method, and program" was invented by Tohru Yoshida (Tokyo) and Katsuyuki Matsuo (Hanno, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination control device includes an image data acquirer, a control data acquirer, and a light source controller. The image data acquirer acquires target imaging-related data related to the target imaging in a case in which target imaging is performed in which an image of an inserter inserted into a hole part continuous with a target is captured by an imaging device t...