US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Sept. 29 for "Endoscope package system, manufacturing method of endoscope, and holding body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,895, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope package system, manufacturing method of endoscope, and holding body" was invented by Keita Mitsuhashi (Hachioji, Japan), Wataru Matsuura (Fuchu, Japan), Motohiko Suzuki (Sagamihara, Japan) and Takuto Yoshinaga (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide an endoscope that can reduce imbalance in shrinkage of an insertion portion and imbalance in slackening of bending wires even if a sterilization process involving heating is performed with respect to the endoscope stored in a container or the like while achieving the downsiz...