ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,170, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medical manipulator" was invented by Yuta Fujii (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical manipulator includes a multi-lumen tube including a flexible portion and a bending portion at a distal end of the flexible portion, a distal-end portion at a distal end of the bending portion, a proximal-end portion at a proximal end of the flexible portion, wires causing the bending portion to be bent, a reinforcement coil one end thereof being secured to the distal-end portion and the other end thereof being secured to the proximal-end portion, a flexible-portion cover membe...