ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,883, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Video endoscope" was invented by Martin Wieters (Barsbuettel, Germany), Sebastian Jungbauer (Hamburg, Germany), Timo Pfander (Hamburg, Germany), Claudia Stoeter (Hamburg, Germany) and Mathias Laser (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video endoscope including: an outer cladding tube, a fiber tube accommodated in the outer cladding tube, wherein the fiber tube has a housing bounding a closed space with a distal end and a proximal end, wherein a front-side window is provided at the distal end of the fiber tube, the fiber tube having an...