ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,785, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope camera head" was invented by Fuminori Tanahashi (Tokyo) and Kohtaro Amano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope camera head 6 includes a first and a second members 8, 9 that are relatively rotatable about a first axis Ax1. The first member 8 has a first rotation-sliding surface 84 that extends in an annular shape about the first axis Ax1 as its center. The second member 9 has a second rotation-sliding surface 93 that engages with the first rotation-sliding surface 84 in a state in which movement to a direction of the first axi...