US Patent Issued to AMBU on Nov. 11 for "Endoscope comprising a bending section having displaced steering wire lumens" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,202, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Endoscope comprising a bending section having displaced steering wire lumens" was invented by Troels Nicolaj Qvist (Roskilde, Denmark), Frederik Clausager Vemb Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Martin Refslund Nielsen (Birkerod, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope including a handle and an insertion cord having a bending section body, a first steering wire portion, and a second steering wire portion. The bending section body includes segments and hinges keeping together, and formed integrally with, the segments, a center axis and a center plane trav...