US Patent Issued to AMBU on Sept. 1 for "Endoscope with a bending section having a cut-out for a working channel" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,504, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Endoscope with a bending section having a cut-out for a working channel" was invented by Thomas Bachgaard Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Kaspar Matthison-Hansen (Helsignor, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A endoscope including a handle, a shaft and a distal tip unit. The shaft includes a bending section, a working channel and a steering wire for controlling a bending movement of the bending section. The bending section includes segments, flexible hinge members provided between adjacent segments, an inner lumen adapted for accommodating the working channel...