ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,693, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medical appliance" was invented by Shintaro Hattori (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a medical appliance with which it is possible to improve usability in relation to a fixing operation and an unfixing operation of a bendable portion.A disk of which an outer peripheral surface is provided with a serrated portion is provided to be integrally rotatable with a sprocket, a plunger that is transitionable between a locking position where a locking portion is locked at the serrated portion and a non-locking position where the locking portion is not loc...