US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on June 23 for "Endoscope system, endoscope, and control method for endoscope" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,985, issued on June 23, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system, endoscope, and control method for endoscope" was invented by Shunsuke Hari (Akiruno, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes a controller configured to receive a detection result relating to insertion of an insertion section of an endoscope into a subject, and record information indicating use of the endoscope based on the detection result in the memory."

The patent was filed on Jan. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/102,096.

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