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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 01, 2020
Applicant:

Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin Hyman Feingold, Tucson, AZ (US);

Vasudev Nambakam, San Jose, CA (US);

Simon S. Hui, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); A61B 1/07 (2006.01); A61B 1/12 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01); H05B 45/22 (2020.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); G02B 6/293 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/4215 (2013.01); A61B 1/00006 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/00126 (2013.01); A61B 1/042 (2013.01); A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0661 (2013.01); A61B 1/0669 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01); A61B 1/07 (2013.01); A61B 1/128 (2013.01); G02B 6/0006 (2013.01); G02B 6/4206 (2013.01); G02B 6/4214 (2013.01); G02B 6/4298 (2013.01); H05B 45/22 (2020.01); G02B 6/29362 (2013.01); G02B 6/4246 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for providing light to an endoscope includes emitting light from a plurality of light emitting diodes, filtering the light with a plurality of dichroic filter elements, collimating and mixing light received from the dichroic filter elements into a combined light, sensing the combined light at a color sensor and determining a sensed color balance of the combined light, comparing the sensed color balance with a predetermined color balance, and varying at least one power signal to control a light intensity output by at least one of the plurality of light emitting diodes so that the sensed color balance corresponds to the predetermined color balance.


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