US Patent Issued to PENTAX MEDICAL on Oct. 20 for "Endoscope and endoscopic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,759, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PENTAX MEDICAL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope and endoscopic device" was invented by Toshiki Watanabe (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Niijima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes: an imaging unit that is incorporated in a distal tip of an insertion tube and images an observed site through an observation window; a plurality of first LEDs juxtaposed outside the imaging unit; and a plurality of second LEDs juxtaposed outside a region where the first LEDs are juxtaposed. The region where the first LEDs are juxtaposed and a region where the second LEDs are juxtaposed are covered with a light...