US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on March 24 for "Illumination unit and medical imaging system for fluorescence imaging in open surgery" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,318, issued on March 24, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Illumination unit and medical imaging system for fluorescence imaging in open surgery" was invented by Konrad Anders (Hamburg, Germany), Matthias Dissel (Hamburg, Germany) and Carsten Holthaus (Barsbuettel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination unit for illuminating an area of operation during open surgery. The illumination unit including: a body; a fiber bundle configured to guide light towards a distal end of the body, and a reflector body arranged at the distal end of the body. Where at least a part of the fiber bundle is guid...