ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,249, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to RICHARD WOLF GMBH (Knittlingen, Germany).
"Medical endoscopic instrument" was invented by Bernd Claus Weber (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Moritz Tewes (Bretten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical endoscopic instrument includes a distal elongated insertion section (1) for minimally invasive insertion into a human or animal body, with at least one LED (5) arranged in a distal end section of the insertion section (1), and a lens system (19) arranged distally of the LED (5) with an optical axis (x). The lens system (19) includes a first lens (29) and a second lens (31) arranged distally of...