ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,070, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).

"Medical control device and medical observation system" was invented by Koji Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical control device includes: a driving mode switch configured to switch a driving mode of a rolling shutter type image sensor in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arrayed in units of horizontal lines; and a dimming controller configured to control a light emitting element configured to emit light according to a supplied current, and switch control of the light emitting element according to the driving mode."

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