ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,566, issued on May 27, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).
"Real-time sampling system" was invented by Jason T. Panzenbeck (Seattle), David A. Herrin (Seattle) and Christopher R. Ralph (Woodinville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and system for allowing real-time viewing of a procedure beyond a distal end of an endoscope. An exemplary device includes a sheath that has at least two lumens and a handle. The handle includes a connector that connects to a proximal end of an endoscope, a shaft portion that rotatably connects to a proximal end of the connector and a manifold that is slidably received by th...