ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,754, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Endoscope and a method for assembling an endoscope" was invented by Jesper Grondahl Lund (Vaerlose, Denmark) and Bjorn Bruhn Thomsen (Birkerod, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope including a coupling member (19) for coupling an insertion tube of the endoscope to an endoscope handle. The coupling member includes a proximal end (21) and a distal end (22) and a passage (20) between an opening in said proximal end (21) and an opening at said distal end (22). The coupling member (19) includes surface features (24) distributed along the circumference an...