US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on April 21 for "Method of affixing a window on an endoscope and endoscope" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,047, issued on April 21, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method of affixing a window on an endoscope and endoscope" was invented by Nils Torkuhl (Barsbuettel, Germany) and Uwe Schoeler (Hoisdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of affixing a window on an endoscope. The method including positioning the window on or in an end part of the endoscope and creating a bezel for the window by overmoulding a lateral edge of the window with amorphous metal."

The patent was filed on April 22, 2024, under Application No. 18/642,082.

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