US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS, ALPS ALPINE on April 21 for "Push button device for endoscope, and endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,033, issued on April 21, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo) and ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Push button device for endoscope, and endoscope" was invented by Shunsuke Kimura (Aizuwakamatsu, Japan), Reiji Koyama (Kawagoe, Japan), Tetsu Numata (Miyagi, Japan), Shigeto Gorai (Miyagi, Japan) and Akihiro Kusaka (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A push button device for an endoscope includes: a connection member having a bottomed tubular shape and provided to a finger placement member, the finger placement member having elasticity and disposed on an exterior member of the endoscope; a first stem that has an upper end port...