ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,858, issued on May 26, was assigned to ENDOCISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Montreal).
"Attachment system for endoscopes" was invented by Boby Chu (Lasalle, Canada), Bruno Chabot (Montreal), Benoit Thibault (Coteau-du-Lac, Canada) and Teresa Mihalik (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment system for detachably attaching an additional channel to an endoscope, the attachment system comprising: a sleeve for receiving a distal end of the endoscope and a distal end of the additional channel in use, the sleeve having: a sleeve body defining a sleeve channel, through which the distal end of the endoscope and the distal end of the add...