US Patent Issued to FORTE GROW MEDICAL, ORT MEDICAL on Dec. 2 for "Pump tube unit and endoscope system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,769, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FORTE GROW MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Tochigi, Japan) and ORT MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Pump tube unit and endoscope system" was invented by Koji Karasawa (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump tube unit according to the present invention includes a pump tube for sending and drawing liquid, an upstream-side water supply tube connected to an upstream-side end portion of the pump tube, a downstream-side water supply tube connected to a downstream-side end portion of the pump tube, and a bypass water supply tube, connected across the upstream-side water supply tube and the downstrea...