US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 23 for "Endoscope with treatment tool delivery port and elevator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,987, issued on June 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope with treatment tool delivery port and elevator" was invented by Yasuhiko Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsuneo Fukuzawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an endoscope capable of reliably illuminating a treatment tool delivered from a treatment tool delivery port and a treatment target region thereof.An endoscope includes a distal end part body that is provided on a distal end side of an insertion part and has a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis; the treatment tool delivery port that is formed in the distal end part b...