US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 15 for "Detachable ultrasonic wave transmission medium supply/discharge member and endoscope system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,905, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detachable ultrasonic wave transmission medium supply/discharge member and endoscope system" was invented by Yuto Shimoyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic wave transmission medium supply/discharge member includes a balloon for an ultrasonic endoscope that is mounted to cover an outer surface of an ultrasound transducer provided in a distal end part body on a distal end side of an insertion portion of an ultrasonic endoscope, in which the balloon for an ultrasonic endoscope has a storage portion that is configured to be filled with an ult...