US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Sept. 1 for "Endoscope, distal end structural member provided at distal end portion of endoscope, and method for manufacturing distal end structural member provided at distal end portion of endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,500, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope, distal end structural member provided at distal end portion of endoscope, and method for manufacturing distal end structural member provided at distal end portion of endoscope" was invented by Jin Kawanoya (Tokyo), Naoki Matsumura (Sagamihara, Japan), Giichi Kaneta (Musashino, Japan) and Yoshihiro Yokomae (Higashiyamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes an insertion section extending along a longitudinal axis and including a distal end portion, the distal end portion includes a distal end structural member including a ...