US Patent Issued to AMBU on Oct. 20 for "Endoscope having an adjustable braking mechanism" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,754, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Endoscope having an adjustable braking mechanism" was invented by Martin Johst Christensen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Jesper Grondahl Lund (Vaerlose, Denmark) and Martin Refslund Nielsen (Birkerod, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope including steering and braking mechanisms. The braking mechanism includes a manually operable braking control element, a friction element which is axially translatable along a control axis to engage or disengage with the steering mechanism, and a cam pairing transmitting force between the braking control element and the fr...