US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 30 for "Ultrasound endoscope for preventing a non-coaxial cable from being disconnected and improving a degree of freedom of wiring" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,344, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound endoscope for preventing a non-coaxial cable from being disconnected and improving a degree of freedom of wiring" was invented by Noboru Kinomoto (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Yasuhiko Morimoto (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ultrasound endoscope capable of preventing a non-coaxial cable from being disconnected and improving a degree of freedom of wirings.An ultrasound endoscope includes a first cable that electrically connects a substrate electrically connected to a plurality of ultrasound transducers and a relay substr...