ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,928, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to EndoChoice Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Elevator for directing medical tool" was invented by Golan Salman (Atlit, Israel) and Moshiko Levi (Ganey Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided herein an endoscope assembly comprising at least one front-pointing viewing element on a front end of a distal section of the endoscope assembly, at least one side-looking viewing element on at least one side wall of the distal section of the endoscope assembly, a working channel configured for insertion of a medical tool towards the distal section, and a system for regulating the direction of...