ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,096, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).
"Medical observation system" was invented by Kazunori Segawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical observation system includes a white light source that emits white light, an infrared light source that emits infrared light, a light source controller that performs control to alternately repeat a first mode and a second mode in chronological order, in the first mode the white light source is caused to emit the white light, and in the second mode the infrared light source is caused to emit the infrared light and the white light source is cause...