ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,080, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope with removable cap" was invented by Takashi Harada (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an endoscope including a cap that can suppress deformation due to a load and that is easily removable. The endoscope incudes a distal-end-portion body and a cap that is removably attached to the distal-end-portion body and that has an open window. The cap includes a cantilever piece that is formed on a wall portion on at least one of sides facing each other with the open window therebetween and that elastically bends, the cantilever piece ha...