ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,296, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).

"Medical light source device and medical observation system" was invented by Yoshiaki Niwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical light source device includes: a first light source configured to emit laser light; a second light source configured to emit measurement light for measuring a connection state between a light guide configured to guide the laser light and an emission optical system configured to irradiate a subject with the laser light through the light guide to the light guide; and a control unit configured to control output of t...