ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,749, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PENTAX Medical Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope and endoscope system" was invented by Tadashi Minakuchi (Tokyo) and Toshiki Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope cable includes a plurality of individual cables, and is provided with an entire shield portion including a metal wire group having an electric shield function to surround entirety of the plurality of individual cables, and a cable core wire including a metal wire group in each of the individual cables. The metal wire group in at least one of the entire shield portion and the cable core wires is configured by combining a ...