US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on Oct. 27 for "Endoscope with optical imaging system" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,104, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Endoscope with optical imaging system" was invented by Charles A. Baker (Rogers, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope comprises an elongate shaft extending along an axis from a proximal end portion to a distal end portion, a video imaging device located in the distal end portion, the video imaging device including a field of view, and an optical imaging systems, e.g., an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system, configured to emit light outside of the field of view. A method of imaging anatomy using an endoscope comprises inserting th...