US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Aug. 19 for "Endoscopic flexible tube, endoscopic medical apparatus, and endoscopic-flexible-tube-base-covering material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,248, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic flexible tube, endoscopic medical apparatus, and endoscopic-flexible-tube-base-covering material" was invented by Kazushi Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshihiro Nakai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic flexible tube including a flexible-tube base containing metal as a constituent material, and a cover layer covering an outer periphery of the flexible-tube base, wherein the cover layer includes a polyester having a naphthalene structure and a component having an action of inhibiting a reaction of an active species such as a radical...