ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,573, issued on May 12, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope and method of disassembling endoscope" was invented by Yasuaki Kasai (Saitama, Japan) and Takuya Toyooka (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes an insertion portion, an operation portion, and a fitting mechanism coupling the insertion portion and the operation portion so as to be decouplable. The fitting mechanism includes a plate portion and a convex portion, and a fitted-shape portion and a hole. The convex portion is fitted to the fitted-shape portion. The hole exposes at least one of the plate portion or the conv...