ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,925, issued on July 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Medical apparatus" was invented by Tomio Noguchi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yusuke Niikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical apparatus includes a bendable medical device including a bendable body and a held portion, and an insertion unit including a moving body and a driving portion. The insertion unit is tiltable. The moving body includes a recess portion configured to accommodate the held portion in a case where the bendable medical device is attached to the moving body, a locking member that is movable between a locking position and a release position, a...