ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,869, issued on July 8, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Articulated tip part for an endoscope" was invented by Thomas Bachgaard Jensen (Copenhagen V, Denmark), Kaspar Mat Matthison-Hansen (Helsingor, Denmark), Jan Guldberg Hansen (Greve, Denmark), Troels Nicolaj Qvist (Roskilde, Denmark) and Michael Kappler Hansen (Vallensaek, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device operable to obtain images of an internal cavity of a patient, including a handle; a flexible tube including a first section having a first radial cross-section area and a second section distal of the first section and having a second radial cr...