ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,362, issued on May 5, was assigned to YUAN High-Tech Development Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Medical endoscope with serializer/deserializer" was invented by Shih-Huai Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of serializer/deserializer is provided. The apparatus comprises an ISP and capture device at a back end with a disposable image-capture module, a synthetic-image module, and a MIPI serializer at a front end; and, after use, only the disposable image-capture module is discarded, which extends into human body at the front end, but keep the other parts reusable, where cost is thus effectively reduced to solve t...