US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER on Aug. 11 for "Controller, endoscope system, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,500, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL CANCER CENTER (Tokyo).

"Controller, endoscope system, and control method" was invented by Hiroto Ogimoto (Tokyo), Ryota Sasai (Tokyo), Masaru Yanagihara (Tokyo), Hiro Hasegawa (Tokyo), Daichi Kitaguchi (Tokyo), Nobuyoshi Takeshita (Tokyo), Shigehiro Kojima (Tokyo), Yuki Furusawa (Tokyo), Yumi Kinebuchi (Tokyo) and Masaaki Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller controls a movement of an endoscope to cause the endoscope to follow a surgical instrument. The controller includes a processor. The processor acquires position information including the ...