US Patent Issued to HOYA on Sept. 9 for "Endoscope comprising a flexible insertion tube and a bending portion" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,818, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope comprising a flexible insertion tube and a bending portion" was invented by Anh Minh Do (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes a flexible insertion tube and a bending portion controllable from a proximal side and being distally connected to the insertion tube. The bending portion includes a sleeve in which at least one pull rope runs for a pivoting movement of the bending portion, wherein the at least one pull rope is anchored to the distal end of the bending portion. A separating element dividing the cross-section of the sleeve into at leas...