US Patent Issued to SCHOTT, SCHOTT on July 28 for "Multi-component endoscope and disposable endoscope system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,519, issued on July 28, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany) and SCHOTT Corp. (Rye Brook, N.Y.).

"Multi-component endoscope and disposable endoscope system" was invented by Bernd Schultheis (Schwabenheim, Germany), Martin Cramer (Wiesbaden, Germany), Hubertus Russert (Jugenheim, Germany), Holger Werner (Frankfurt, Germany), Jurgen Meinl (Hohenstein-Holzhausen, Germany), Jonas Grimm (Bad Schwalbach, Germany), Oliver Keiper (Hunstetten, Germany), Steffen Astheimer (Hunstetten, Germany), Bjorn Bleisinger (Riesweiler, Germany) and Christian Schwedler (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope is provided that has a...