ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,672, issued on May 26, was assigned to ClearCam Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Imaging element cleaning apparatus with single hand operability" was invented by Tremaan Alexander Spearman-White (Austin, Texas), Etse-Oghena Campbell (Austin, Texas) and Christopher Robert Idelson (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosures made herein are directed to providing an effective and reliable approach for cleaning an exposed surface of an imaging element (e.g., a lens) of apparatuses including but not limited to medical imaging instruments such as endoscopes and laparoscopes and the like. In the case of medical imaging ...