ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,605, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medical instrument guide device and endoscope apparatus" was invented by Shinya Abe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsuya Minagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument guide device includes a tube main body (606) that includes an outer tube (602) having flexibility and an inner tube (604) having flexibility and being arranged inside the outer tube (602), and a shape deformable body (612) that is provided between the outer tube (602) and the inner tube (604) and is deformable along a shape of the tube main body (606)."
The patent was filed on Aug. ...