US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 23 for "Ultrasonic endoscope and manufacturing method of ultrasonic endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,087, issued on June 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic endoscope and manufacturing method of ultrasonic endoscope" was invented by Yasuhiko Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsuneo Fukuzawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an ultrasonic endoscope, in which bending of a signal cable at a time of assembling a distal end portion is alleviated and the signal cable is prevented from being disconnected, and a manufacturing method thereof. An ultrasonic endoscope (1) includes a cable insertion hole (88), a storing portion (90) that is formed on a distal end side of the cable insertion hole ...