ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,031, issued on July 1, 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 a transmitting part that transmits an operation of an operating part to a grip part and a bendable part of a distal end part. The transmitting part has a first transmitting member hat is moved to an operating part side based on the operation of the operating part and closes the grip part and a second transmitting member that is moved to the operating par...