US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Oct. 27 for "Flexible tube for endoscope, endoscopic medical device, and methods for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,480, issued on Oct. 27, 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) and Kazushi Furukawa (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 a sleeve-shaped flexible-tube base having flexibility and a cover layer covering an outer periphery of the flexible-tube base, in which the cover layer includes a chain-extended product of a polyester having a naphthalene structure, and the chain-extended product includes a constituent compon...