US Patent Issued to HOYA on Nov. 11 for "Elevator attachment, endoscope, method of attaching elevator attachment and method of removing elevator attachment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,196, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Elevator attachment, endoscope, method of attaching elevator attachment and method of removing elevator attachment" 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 includes a holding body including an inclined surface plate covering a part of the inclined surface of the endoscope, a first plate raising from an edge of the inclined surface plate and located along the first inner wall and a second plate abutting against the second inner wall, and an elevato...