US Patent Issued to AMBU on Jan. 27 for "Steering assembly for an endoscope, in particular for a single use endoscope" (German, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,009, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Steering assembly for an endoscope, in particular for a single use endoscope" was invented by Jakob Schutz (NeusaB, Germany), Gunter Wilhelm Schutz (Augsburg, Germany), Daniel Bernd Roppenecker (Purgen, Germany), Martin Refslund Nielsen (Birkerod, Denmark) and Jan Guldberg Hansen (Greve, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering assembly for an endoscope, the steering assembly including a first steering member rotatable around a rotation axis for bending a tip of the endoscope in a first directional plane, a second steering member rotatable around the rota...