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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,095, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope" was invented by Takuro Asaoka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Yukiiri (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an endoscope with a narrower diameter at a distal end portion of an insertion part to be inserted into a body of a subject.The endoscope includes: a forceps port; and an imaging unit, in which the forceps port and the imaging unit are disposed side by side at a distal end of the endoscope, the imaging unit includes an imaging lens, an imaging element having a light-receiving surface disposed parallel to an optical axis of the imaging...