US Patent Issued to Sumita Optical Glass, NIREC on Sept. 8 for "Beam-shaping lens, beam-shaping element, light source device for an endoscope, and endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,744, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sumita Optical Glass Inc. (Saitama, Japan) and NIREC Corp. (Kochi, Japan).

"Beam-shaping lens, beam-shaping element, light source device for an endoscope, and endoscope" was invented by Jun Otake (Saitama, Japan), Hiroki Watanabe (Saitama, Japan), Eiji Ototsuki (Saitama, Japan) and Yuichi Takenaga (Kochi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam-shaping lens includes a first surface including a smooth-shaped concave surface; and a second surface including a convex surface substantially similar in shape to the concave surface. The beam-shaping lens converts a first light beam that is parallel...