US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on March 24 for "Insertion instrument and endoscope system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,293, issued on March 24, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Insertion instrument and endoscope system" was invented by Satoshi Horie (Kokubunji, Japan) and Nagahide Sakai (Kodaira, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insertion instrument comprises an insertion section including a distal end portion, a bending portion, and a flexible tube portion. The distal end portion includes an opening, an objective lens, a first conduit, and a second conduit connected to the first conduit, the second conduit extending in a direction other than the longitudinal direction, the second conduit located distally relative to th...