ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,103, issued on March 24, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).
"Image capturing unit and endoscope" was invented by Takaaki Hariyama (Tokyo), Tetsuta Hanawa (Hachioji, Japan), Yuki Ito (Hachioji, Japan) and Tatsuya Daimaru (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes an imager, a cable that coats a cable core wire for performing at least one of inputting and outputting of signals between the imager and outside and supply of power to the imager from the outside, a first substrate that connects the imager to a first surface, and a second substrate that is connected to a first connection p...