ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,900, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ZSQUARE LTD. (Petah Tikva, Israel).
"Illumination sources for multicore fiber endoscopes" was invented by Asaf Shahmoon (Petah-Tikva, Israel) and Zeev Zalevsky (Rosh ha'ayin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Endoscopes, multicore endoscope fibers and configuration and operation methods are provided. The fibers may have hundreds or thousands of cores and possibly incorporate working channel(s) and additional fibers. The fiber may be used at different optical configurations to capture images of tissue and objects at the distal tip and to enhance a wide range of optical characteristics of t...