US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 3 for "Endoscope system and method of operating endoscope system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,071, issued on June 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system and method of operating endoscope system" was invented by Masahiro Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first illumination light beam is switched to a second illumination light beam and the second illumination light beam is emitted for a period of at least one frame, during a period in which the first illumination light beam is emitted. A first image or a second image obtained by imaging an observation target illuminated with the first illumination light beam or the second illumination light beam is acquired for each frame. At least one ...