US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Aug. 11 for "Light source device and cooling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,245, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Light source device and cooling method" was invented by Toru Kuboi (Machida, Japan), Yusuke Yabe (Chofu, Japan) and Shuichi Kudo (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source device includes: a first light emitting element; a second light emitting element; and a heat sink configured to dissipate heat of the first light emitting element and heat of the second light emitting element. The heat sink includes: a first heat dissipation portion that is disposed on a flow path of a fluid, the first heat dissipation portion being configured to rad...