US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on May 26 for "Endoscopy device and endoscopy system with annular view" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,863, issued on May 26, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Endoscopy device and endoscopy system with annular view" was invented by Harald Baumann (Tuttlingen, Germany), Klaus M. Irion (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Peter Schwarz (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic device comprising a housing, first imaging means in the housing for detecting light emanating from objects from a predetermined first surrounding region annularly surrounding the endoscopic device and for producing a first image of the first surrounding region, a first image sensor for detecting the first image and for prod...