US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Dec. 2 for "Endoscope contamination detection device, control device, and endoscope contamination detection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,177, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope contamination detection device, control device, and endoscope contamination detection method" was invented by Yuichiro Hashimoto (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope contamination detection device includes: a light source that irradiates an endoscope with light having a specific wavelength; an image sensor that receives fluorescence emitted by a deposit adhering to a surface of the endoscope; and a control device having a processor, wherein the processor acquires a signal from the image sensor, generates an image from the signal, detects l...