US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Aug. 11 for "Signal cable, endoscope, and method of processing signal cable" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,274, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Signal cable, endoscope, and method of processing signal cable" was invented by Masaru Inamura (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal cable includes: a plurality of electric wires; a first insulating layer surrounding the plurality of electric wires; a shielding layer covering a circumference of the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer covering a circumference of the shielding layer; and a fixing portion fixing a distal end portion of the shielding layer, in which distal end portions of electric wires protrude more toward a ...