US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 1 for "Flexible tube for endoscope, endoscopic medical device, and methods for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,931, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flexible tube for endoscope, endoscopic medical device, and methods for producing the same" was invented by Yoshihiro Nakai (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Kazushi Furukawa (Ashigarakami-gun, 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 flexible-tube base containing metal as a constituent material, a cover layer covering an outer periphery of the flexible-tube base, and a primer layer disposed between the flexible-tube base and the cover layer and including at least one of a specific silane coupling agent, ...