US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on May 26 for "Bending tube, insertion appliance, and manufacturing method of bending tube" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,864, issued on May 26, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Bending tube, insertion appliance, and manufacturing method of bending tube" was invented by Satoshi Horie (Kokubunji, Japan) and Eijiro Sato (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bending tube of an insertion appliance includes a first region including a first plurality of slits, a second region provided proximally relative to the first region and including a second plurality of slits, and a guiding surface on an inner circumferential surface of the bending tube, the guiding surface extending in a circumferential direction, and including a chann...