US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 3 for "Endoscope circuit board, endoscope and endoscope power receiving method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,389, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope circuit board, endoscope and endoscope power receiving method" was invented by Taiga Iijima (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope circuit board includes: a first power supply system; a second power supply system; a first switch; and a voltage detection circuit, in which when the first switch receives a signal from the voltage detection circuit, if only the first power receiving section receives power, the power received by the first power receiving section is supplied to the first power supply circuit and the second power su...