ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,280, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Bending piece and bending portion of medical device, and endoscope" was invented by Kota Ninomiya (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bending piece of a medical device includes: a ring-shaped piece main body having a peripheral wall part whose cross-section orthogonal to an axial direction is formed in a C-like shape and a slit-shaped opening part extending in the axial direction and provided between one end and the other end of the peripheral wall part in a peripheral direction; a first extension body extending from the peripheral wall part to one side in...