US Patent Issued to CLEE MEDICAL on Sept. 15 for "Minimally invasive optical forward viewing probe" (French, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,792, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CLEE MEDICAL SA (Geneva).

"Minimally invasive optical forward viewing probe" was invented by Jules Rene Raymond Scholler (Saint-Cergues, France), Gary Evans (Allinges, France), Michalina Gora-Gioux (St-Prex, Switzerland), Yoseline Cabara (Geneva), Simon Thiele (Stuttgart, Germany) and Matthew Lapinski (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical probe assembly including a lens assembly extending along a central axis for optically coupling to an optical fiber. The lens assembly can have a forward facing exit window. The exit window can have an exit lens with a convex exit surface. The exi...