ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,714, issued on March 17, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Tip part for forming a tip of a disposable insertion endoscope" was invented by Morten Sorensen (Ballerup, Denmark) and Lasse Markworth Johnsen (Birkerod, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tip part (2) for forming a tip of a disposable insertion endoscope (1), the tip part comprising an exterior housing (9) having an open proximal end (9a) for connection to other parts of the endoscope, the housing further having a distal front wall (11) and a circumferential housing wall (12), the circumferential housing wall extending a total housing length H in a proxi...