US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Sept. 8 for "Image pickup unit, method of manufacturing image pickup unit, and endoscope" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,683, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup unit, method of manufacturing image pickup unit, and endoscope" was invented by Shinya Ishikawa (Fuchu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup substrate; a first wiring plate bonded to the image pickup substrate; and a second wiring plate having a fifth principal surface, a sixth principal surface, and a second side surface, a fifth electrode on the fifth principal surface and a sixth electrode on the second side surface being bonded to a fourth electrode on the fourth principal surface of the firs...