US Patent Issued to HOYA on Sept. 15 for "Endoscope having a nozzle element for cleaning a lens element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,791, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope having a nozzle element for cleaning a lens element" was invented by Tilman Schroeter (Friedberg, Germany) and Stefan Kolberg (Friedberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope with a distal housing element which has a lens element, and with a nozzle element for cleaning the surface of the lens element. The lens element is a curved lens element, the curvature of which protrudes from the housing element in a distal direction. The nozzle element is arranged at the distal side of the distal housing element adjacent to the curved lens element. The nozzl...