ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,076, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system, control method, and program" was invented by Masashi Murakita (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes an imaging device to which an insertion unit is connected, the imaging device receiving light guided through the insertion unit by an image sensor to capture an image; and a control device that controls the imaging device, in which the control device includes one or more processors and one or more storage devices storing a program, and the processor executes the program to: determine a size of an observation area d...