US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Feb. 17 for "Endoscope cap, endoscope treatment tool, and endoscope system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,091, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope cap, endoscope treatment tool, and endoscope system" was invented by Yuya Hidaka (Tokyo), Yuya Matsuoka (Tokyo) and Junji Shiono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope cap includes: a hood portion attached to a distal end portion of an endoscope; a cap portion connected to a distal end of the hood portion, having an abutting surface against which the endoscope is abutted in a state of the endoscope being inserted into the hood portion, and protruding from the distal end of the hood portion; a channel tube into which an elongated device is inserted; ...