US Patent Issued to i-PRO on Oct. 27 for "Endoscope and method for producing endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,096, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to i-PRO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope and method for producing endoscope" was invented by Hirofumi Enomoto (Fukuoka, Japan), Naoyuki Haraguchi (Fukuoka, Japan) and Yuichi Hatase (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope include an image sensor having an imaging surface and a lens adhered to the imaging surface by an adhesive and imaging light on the image sensor. The lens includes a light incident surface extending in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to an optical axis direction of the lens, a back surface parallel to the light incident surface and facing the imaging surface, a...