ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,884, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope" was invented by Tsuneo Fukuzawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuhiko Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The endoscope includes a treatment tool delivery port that is formed in a distal end part body and allows a treatment tool to be delivered therethrough; an elevator that controls a delivery direction of the treatment tool delivered from the treatment tool delivery port; an observation window that is provided at a position closer to a first direction side in a latitudinal direction than the treatment tool delivery port in the distal end part bo...