US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER on May 26 for "Shape measurement system for endoscope and shape measurement method for endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,837, issued on May 26, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL CANCER CENTER (Tokyo).

"Shape measurement system for endoscope and shape measurement method for endoscope" was invented by Tatsuya Nakamura (Tokyo), Daichi Watanabe (Tokyo), Kazunari Hanano (Tokyo), Keigo Matsuo (Tokyo), Taku Sakamoto (Tokyo) and Ichiro Oda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display processing unit causes a display device to display an endoscopic image of a living tissue in a somatic cavity captured by an endoscope. An operation reception unit receives a user operation that is performed so as to set an area of interest in the endoscopic ima...