US Patent Issued to JUNTENDO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION on Aug. 11 for "Endoscope system for measuring blood flow velocity in gastrointestinal superficial small blood vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,318, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to JUNTENDO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system for measuring blood flow velocity in gastrointestinal superficial small blood vessel" was invented by Akihito Nagahara (Bunkyo-ku, Japan), Hiroya Ueyama (Bunkyo-ku, Japan) and Yoichi Akazawa (Bunkyo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide means for measuring the blood flow rate of gastric subepithelial microvessel in real time. An endoscope system for measuring the blood flow rate of gastric subepithelial microvessel comprises a magnifying endoscope and a blood flow video data processing unit for processing blood flow video ...