US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on April 14 for "Assist device, endoscope system, assist method and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,293, issued on April 14, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Assist device, endoscope system, assist method and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Yasuo Tanigami (Tokyo), Yusuke Otsuka (Yokohama, Japan), Noriko Kuroda (Machida, Japan) and Takaaki Igarashi (Mitaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assist device includes: a processor configured to generate a fluorescence image based on an imaging signal that is generated by capturing an image of fluorescence caused by excitation light that is applied to a living tissue, calculate a fluorescence intensity based on the fluorescence image, based on the fluores...