US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 18 for "Distal-end portion for use with endoscope, insertion portion and endoscope" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,763, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Distal-end portion for use with endoscope, insertion portion and endoscope" was invented by Takahiro Suwa (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes: a distal-end constituting portion provided at a distal end of an insertion portion of the endoscope; an observation window having a field of view direction that intersects a longitudinal axis of the insertion portion; a first flat surface on which the observation window is arranged, the first flat surface constituting a part of a surface of the distal-end constituting portion and h...