US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Aug. 11 for "Temperature measurement method, temperature measurement device, medical device system, and laser treatment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,416, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Temperature measurement method, temperature measurement device, medical device system, and laser treatment method" was invented by Mitsuru Namiki (Tokyo) and Ikutoshi Fukushima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a temperature measurement method for measuring an ambient temperature of a long-length medical device, using first and second optical fibers attached to the medical device, the first and second optical fibers extending in parallel with each other along a longitudinal direction of the medical device, and the first optical fiber having a distal end s...