ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,088, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Objective optical system for endoscope and endoscope" was invented by Keisuke Harada (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective optical system for an endoscope consisting of, in order from an object side toward an image side: a front group; and a rear group, wherein: the front group consists of, in order from the object side toward the image side: one negative lens; an optical path deflecting prism; an aperture stop; and one positive lens. The objective optical system for an endoscope satisfies a predetermined conditional expression."

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