ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,021, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MEDICAL INTUBATION TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Damping-enabled endoscope operator" was invented by Shih-Wei Lo (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chun-Yi Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damping-enabled endoscope operator includes: a bottom rod having a top end provided with a sphere; a plate having a penetrating hole penetrable by the bottom rod, with the penetrating hole being of a small diameter than the sphere; a body fixedly disposed at the plate, covering the sphere, having an installation channel penetrating the body vertically, and allowing a portion of the sphere to prot...