US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on June 23 for "Real-time sampling system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,094, issued on June 23, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Real-time sampling system" was invented by David A. Herrin (Seattle), Jean-Martin Baillargeon (Seattle) and Jason T. Panzenbeck (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for securing a control device of an elongated instrument to an insertion device. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a coupling that is configured to join the control device with a port of an insertion device used to convey the elongated instrument to a target location. A bushing extends from the coupling and i...