US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 7 for "Endoscope" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,760, issued on July 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope" was invented by Toshiharu Kuwae (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes a movable lens group that is movable forward and backward in an optical axis direction, a flexible shaft that has a shaft axis, is configured to rotate in a rotation direction about the shaft axis, and moves the movable lens group in the optical axis direction in a case in which the flexible shaft rotates in the rotation direction, a zoom operation knob, a slider that moves forward and backward in a direction of the shaft axis according to an operation of the z...