US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 17 for "Flexible tube for endoscope, endoscopic medical device, and methods for producing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,715, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flexible tube for endoscope, endoscopic medical device, and methods for producing the same" was invented by Yoshihiro Nakai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a flexible tube for an endoscope, the flexible tube having good elasticity, being capable of sufficiently maintaining adhesiveness between a flexible-tube base and a polymer cover layer covering the flexible-tube base even when a bending operation is repeated, and being less likely to undergo a decrease in elasticity even when the flexible tube is repeatedly heated, an endoscopic medica...