ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,953, issued on July 7, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Device for determining a parasitic resistance in video endoscopes" was invented by Sven Pabst (Giekau, Germany) and Sebastian Jungbauer (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining a parasitic resistance of an electronic circuit for a video endoscope, the device including: a potential determining device; a printed circuit board; and a potential-determining conductor which is connected to the potential-determining device, the potential-determining conductor being situated on the printed circuit board. Wherein the potential...