ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,328, issued on May 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasonic endoscope and distal end unit thereof" was invented by Yuto Shimoyama (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic endoscope includes: a distal end part body provided on a distal end side of an insertion part; and an ultrasound transducer provided on a distal end side of the distal end part body, in which an outer peripheral surface of the distal end part body is improved to increase a contact region of a proximal end part of the ultrasound transducer with a patient's body wall surface, so that it is possible to reliably perform visualization ...