ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,745, issued on March 11, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Elevator attachment and endoscope" was invented by Tetsuya Tarumoto (Tokyo) and Takahiro Hatoma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator attachment attachable to and detachable from an endoscope including an inclined surface inclined relative to a longitudinal direction of an insertion part, an elevator recess having a first inner wall and a second inner wall that faces the first inner wall and being opened toward the inclined surface and a lever pivotally provided inside the elevator recess, and the elevator attachment comprises a holding body including an incli...