US Patent Issued to COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "Endoscope with pivoting lighting" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,297, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Endoscope with pivoting lighting" was invented by Jonathan K. Lupton (Thomasville, N.C.), Liam Breen (Ballina, Ireland), Vincent McHugo (Birdhill, Ireland), John C. Sigmon Jr. (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Shaun D. Gittard (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scope system is provided including an elongate tube with a distal portion and a lumen extending therethrough, the distal portion comprising a distal end section comprising a pivot arm, the scope system further comprising a plurality of lights distributed on and connected to t...