US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ Imaging on March 17 for "Scene adaptive endoscopic illuminator with fluorescence illumination" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,724, issued on March 17, was assigned to KARL STORZ Imaging Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Scene adaptive endoscopic illuminator with fluorescence illumination" was invented by George E. Duckett III (Castaic, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Endoscopic illuminator devices and methods are provided with an adaptive illumination profile. An endoscopic illuminator includes a first and a third illumination element adapted for coupling first illumination light into a light input of an endoscope for illuminating a central area of a field of view of the endoscope. A second and a fourth illumination element are adapted for coupling second illu...