US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on April 14 for "Flexible tube for endoscope, endoscopic medical device, method for producing covering material constituting flexible tube for endoscope, and method for producing flexible tube for endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,705, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flexible tube for endoscope, endoscopic medical device, method for producing covering material constituting flexible tube for endoscope, and method for producing flexible tube for endoscope" was invented by Yoshihiro Nakai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazushi Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a flexible tube for an endoscope, the flexible tube having a flexible-tube base that is flexible and tubular and a polyester elastomer layer that covers the flexible-tube base and has a naphthalene structure in a soft segment, an endoscopic medical de...