US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Sept. 8 for "Medical observation system, medical imaging device and imaging method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,749, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical observation system, medical imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Takaaki Igarashi (Mitaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical observation system includes: a light source configured to emit, to body tissue, at least one of first narrow band light and second narrow band light; an imaging element that includes: a pixel portion including plural pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix; and a color filter including red filters, green filters, and blue filters that are provided on light receiving surfaces of the plural pixels, each of the l...