US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 26 for "Endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,669, issued on May 26, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope" was invented by Masaya Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Harada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes first and second angle knobs that are connected to first and second wire pulling members which change a direction of a distal end of an insertion part, in which a rotational movement restricting member is attached instead of the first and second angle knobs before use. The rotational movement restricting member includes a first rotational movement restricting portion that is engaged with the first wire pulling member to restric...