ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,291, issued on March 24, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope and endoscope illumination substrate" was invented by Atsushi Komoro (Tokyo) and Toshiki Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope or the like that prevents crosstalk between multiple light-emitting parts is provided. An endoscope includes: an observation window that is disposed at a distal end of an insertion part; a plurality of first light-emitting parts that are disposed around the observation window; a second light-emitting part that is disposed between the first light-emitting parts and emits light at a bandwidth different from a bandwidt...