US Patent Issued to GENESIS MEDTECH JAPAN on Sept. 15 for "Optical probe and an optical tomographic imaging apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,812, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GENESIS MEDTECH JAPAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical probe and an optical tomographic imaging apparatus including the same" was invented by Hiroki Watanabe (Saitama, Japan), Koji Matsumoto (Saitama, Japan), Shotaro Sano (Saitama, Japan), Hidenori Suzuki (Saitama, Japan) and Kenji Taira (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical probe 40 used for the vascular optical tomographic imaging apparatus 100 includes an optical fiber 10 having a central axis 14 and a translucent lens member 20 fixed to a tip surface 12 of the optical fiber. The lens member has an outer circumferential sur...