US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 6 for "Endoscope distal end for treatment tools, observation and fluid supply" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,234, issued on May 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope distal end for treatment tools, observation and fluid supply" was invented by Yuta Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an endoscope that allows treatment, which uses treatment tools, to be performed accurately.An observation window is disposed across a vertical axis in a distal end surface region positioned above a horizontal axis; a first treatment tool outlet port is disposed across the vertical axis in a distal end surface region positioned below the horizontal axis; a second treatment tool outlet port is disposed across...