US Patent Issued to PSIP2 on Aug. 11 for "Endoscope with disposable camera shaft and reuseable handle" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,273, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PSIP2 LLC.

"Endoscope with disposable camera shaft and reuseable handle" was invented by Bryan Lord (Bedford, N.H.) and John M. Cronk (Strafford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope with a handle and an insertion shaft. The insertion shaft has solid state illumination and imaging circuitry at or near a tip designed to provide illumination and imaging of the interior of a body cavity for a surgeon during surgery. The proximal portion of the handle has electronics for drive of the illumination circuitry and to receive imaging signal from the imaging circuitry, the proximal handle por...