US Patent Issued to VPIX Medical Incorporation on Aug. 18 for "Optical system mounted on a confocal endomicroscope" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,631, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to VPIX Medical Incorporation (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Optical system mounted on a confocal endomicroscope" was invented by Kyungmin Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyuyoung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yeongryeol Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system mounted on a confocal endomicroscope is proposed. The optical system may include a first laser coupled to a first optical fiber and a second laser coupled to a second optical fiber. The optical system may also include an optical fiber coupler that couples the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber into a...