US Patent Issued to AMBU on Nov. 3 for "Tip for a single use endoscope, in particular for a single use duodenoscope" (German, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,401, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Tip for a single use endoscope, in particular for a single use duodenoscope" was invented by Gunter Wilhelm Schutz (Augsburg, Germany), Anja Dillinger (Aindling, Germany), Kaspar Mat Matthison-Hansen (Helsingor, Denmark), Felix-Johannes Abicht (Munich) and Jonas Hjortlund (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tip for a single use endoscope, the endoscope and a method of producing the tip. The tip includes a housing encapsulating a light emitting device and an imaging device in a fluid tight manner, where the light emitting device is arranged on a pla...