US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 14 for "Endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,032, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope" was invented by Masaya Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Harada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevating base provided to be movable between an elevated position and a fallen position is provided at a distal end of an insertion part of the endoscope. As an elevating operation lever rotates in a first direction, the elevating operation lever causes the elevating base to move to the elevated position, and as the elevating operation lever rotates in a second direction, the elevating operation lever causes the elevating base to move to the f...