US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 7 for "Endoscope system, lumen structure calculation system, and method for creating lumen structure information" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,757, issued on July 7, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system, lumen structure calculation system, and method for creating lumen structure information" was invented by Jun Hane (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes an insertion section, an imager, and a control device including a processor that processes a signal from the imager. The insertion section is inserted into a lumen as an object. The imager is monocular and is provided in the insertion section to capture an image of the object. The processor acquires actual size determination information for determining an actual...