ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,892, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"White balance adjustment jig for endoscope and white balance adjustment method for endoscope" was invented by Hiroaki Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichi Otani (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Yoshimori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shintaro Hattori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A white balance adjustment jig for an endoscope includes: an insertion portion that includes at least one insertion hole into which a distal end part of an endoscope is inserted; a lid portion that is disposed to face the insertion portion; and an outer peripheral portion that is in contact with ...