US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 3 for "Endoscope mouthpiece, drape adapter, and endoscope mouthpiece disposal method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,187, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope mouthpiece, drape adapter, and endoscope mouthpiece disposal method" was invented by Takumi Dejima (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Ohki (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuyuki Torisawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope mouthpiece includes a mouthpiece body, a drape, and a fluid suppression member. The mouthpiece body has a pipe line and has an opening portion provided at an end of the pipe line on a side located outside a body of a patient. The drape is provided integrally with the mouthpiece body and covers a head o...