US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Oct. 28 for "Flexible scope with improved suction" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,577, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Hachioji Tokyo, Japan).

"Flexible scope with improved suction" was invented by Joey Magno (Dudley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed including apparatuses and methods for endoscopy such as an endoscope device operable to produce suction. An endoscope can include or use a cylinder for use at a distal end of an endoscope, and the cylinder can include a cylinder channel extending from a first end of the cylinder to a second end of the cylinder, and a rotor arranged within a working channel of the endoscope at the distal end of the...