US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 2 for "Endoscope system and method of operating endoscope system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,425, issued on June 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system and method of operating endoscope system" was invented by Yuta Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hisashi Endo (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomonori Yokota (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Osanai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Ozawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes an endoscope and a processor device. The processor device functions as an abnormality detection unit, an abnormality information generation unit, and an abnormality information management unit. The abnormality detection unit detects an abnormality of the endoscope by using i...