US Patent Issued to AMBU on March 3 for "Sliding motion transfer member for an endoscope" (Danish, Malaysian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,315, issued on March 3, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Sliding motion transfer member for an endoscope" was invented by Jesper Grondahl Lund (Vaerlose, Denmark), Tan Xian Wei (Air Itam, Malaysia) and Ilona Dillinger (Aindling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding motion transfer member (22) for the kinematic chain of an actuator mechanism of an endoscope. The sliding motion transfer member (22) has a proximal end and a distal end (21). The sliding motion transfer member (22) is adapted to receive motion activation input and to move in a sliding manner in response to the motion activation input, thereby tra...