US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Oct. 27 for "Endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,094, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope" was invented by Kunihiko Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Shintaro Hattori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yutaka Senda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an endoscope of which operability in changing a visual field direction can be improved.A grip part includes a first flat surface portion that is formed on a part of an outer surface of the grip part and that is parallel to a direction of an insertion axis, a knob includes a finger placing portion and a pair of finger rest portions, and the finger placing portion is provided at a position facin...