US Patent Issued to NISSHA on March 18 for "Sensor-equipped hood and endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,077, issued on March 18, was assigned to NISSHA Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Sensor-equipped hood and endoscope" was invented by Chuzo Taniguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Ryomei Omote (Kyoto, Japan), Junichi Shibata (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshiro Fujii (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryoma Tanimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a sensor-equipped hood capable of detecting force applied to the hood without narrowing an operating field viewed through the hood. A sensor-equipped hood protrudes from a tip end portion of an endoscope main body, and is attached to the tip end portion. The sensor-equipped hood includes a transparent tubular hood m...