ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,119, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Balloon for ultrasonic endoscope" was invented by Yuto Shimoyama (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a balloon for an ultrasonic endoscope in which an ultrasound oscillator surface of an ultrasound transducer can be most swollen.A balloon for an ultrasonic endoscope that is mounted to cover an outside surface of an ultrasound transducer provided in a distal end part body on a distal end side of an insertion part includes a bottomed tubular balloon body that has an opening portion provided at one end in a first direction corresponding to a longitu...