US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on Sept. 8 for "Illumination system and medical imaging system for fluorescence imaging in open surgery" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,762, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Illumination system 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 system for fluorescence imaging in open surgery including an illumination light source for generating illumination light including white light and fluorescence excitation light, and illumination optics for illuminating an operating area with the illumination light. The illumination optics ...