US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 7 for "Endoscope cart and instrument for endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,123, issued on July 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope cart and instrument for endoscope" was invented by Kojiro Kotani (Kanagawa, Japan), Yutaka Senda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shozo Iyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On a shelf plate constituting a placement portion, the instrument for an endoscope is placed. An ultraviolet ray source portion irradiates the instrument for an endoscope with ultraviolet rays. A handle portion is provided with an ultraviolet ray source portion and a drawer portion is provided with an ultraviolet ray source portion. A rotary panel is provided with an ultraviolet ray sou...