US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe on Nov. 3 for "Endoscope and method of manufacturing a sealed unit of an endoscope" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,387, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Endoscope and method of manufacturing a sealed unit of an endoscope" was invented by Martin Wieters (Barsbttelue, Germany), Nils Torkuhl (Hamburg, Germany) and Mathias Laser (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope including: a handle, an elongated shaft, and a video camera disposed in the shaft. The elongated shaft having a unit including a plurality of nested tubes. The plurality of nested tubes including a first tube and a second tube at least partially disposed within the first tube, the first tube and the second tube being f...