ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,569, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Treatment tool for endoscope" was invented by Yoshihiro Ueda (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 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 rotatable and translatable. The transmitting part has a first member to which rotation and translation of the operating member are transmitted and a second member to which only the rotation of the operating member is transmitted. The grip part is...