US Patent Issued to RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (RDI) on Nov. 3 for "Controllable micro-endoscope" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,397, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (RDI) (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Controllable micro-endoscope" was invented by Marek G. Sekowski (Northwest Gig Harbor, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controllable endoscope comprising a tube cut out radially to form at least three long segments having each loops for slidably receiving pull wires, separated by series of short segments having no loops; all the segments being attached to each other only by portions of the tube that were not cut out."

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 2022, under Application No. 18/077,602.

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