ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,688, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope and treatment tool elevating mechanism" was invented by Takashi Harada (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided an endoscope and a treatment tool elevating mechanism capable of achieving improvement in accessibility of a cleaning brush, prevention of wear of a distal-end-portion main body, and prevention of slipping of a treatment tool into the lower side of an operating wire. When viewed in a second direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal axis of the distal-end-portion main body and a first direction perpendicular ...