ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,692, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Treatment tool for endoscope" was invented by Yoshihiro Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiichiro Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment tool for an endoscope includes an operating part and a transmitting part that transmits an operation of the operating part to a grip part of a distal end part and a bendable part. The operating part has an operating member that is movable in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The transmitting part has a first transmitting member that is moved t...