ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,796, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EndoChoice Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Multi-jet controller for an endoscope" was invented by Amram Aizenfeld (Ramot Menashe, Israel), Golan Salman (Atlit, Israel) and Hadar Schwarcz (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification describes a control mechanism to control fluid flow through one or more fluid channels that supply fluid to the distal tip of an endoscope. A pump is provided with an endoscope to control the flow of fluid from an external source to a combination of fluid channels within the endoscope, which supply fluid to front and side jets of a multi-jet end...