ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,958, issued on April 7, was assigned to TTP PLC (Royston, Great Britain).
"Endoscope" was invented by Michael Withers (Royston, Great Britain), Paul Galluzzo (Royston, Great Britain), Duncan Stuart Mcbryde (Royston, Great Britain) and Rita Stella (Royston, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for controlling an endoscope having a flexible tubular body, the method comprising: deploying an anchor to stabilise at least a part of the flexible tubular body; and performing active image stabilisation to stabilise the position of a camera at a distal end of the endoscope."
The patent was filed on Aug. 1...