US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 30 for "Endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,240, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope" was invented by Yasuhiko Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoru Okada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsuneo Fukuzawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope including an insertion unit, a treatment tool insertion channel, a treatment tool outlet, an elevator, and a plurality of wall is provided. The insertion unit has a soft part, a bendable part, and a distal end part arranged in order from a proximal end side toward a distal end side in a direction of a longitudinal axis. The treatment tool insertion channel is inserted into the insertion unit. The ...