ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,462, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope and endoscope system" was invented by Minsul Jang (Tokyo) and Kohei Iketani (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope that captures an image of a biological tissue in a body cavity includes: an image sensor configured to capture the image of the biological tissue; an objective lens that simultaneously forms, as captured images, a front-view image of the biological tissue obtained through a front window facing a front side of a light receiving surface of the image sensor and a side-view image of the biological tissue obtained through a side window...