US Patent Issued to HOYA on Sept. 8 for "Endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,299, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope" was invented by Rei Sato (Tokyo), Keiichi Saito (Tokyo) and Yuki Iida (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an endoscope that prevents an increase in temperature of a light-emitting element.This endoscope includes: an observation window fixed to a distal tip member disposed at a distal tip of an insertion portion; a light-emitting element that emits light in a viewing direction of the observation window; a power supply wire that supplies power to the light-emitting element; an illumination frame that surrounds a connection portion between the...