US Patent Issued to AMBU on July 8 for "Tip part for an endoscope" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,866, issued on July 8, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Tip part for an endoscope" was invented by Morten Sorensen (Ballerup, Denmark) and Lasse Markworth Johnsen (Birkerod, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable endoscope with a tip part including a vision sensor, an exterior housing having a front wall and a circumferential wall, an interior spacing of the exterior housing accommodating the vision sensor, and a camera window positioned at least partly in front of the vision sensor, the housing further comprising a nozzle provided at the distal end of the tip part and configured to flush an exterior surface...