US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on July 29 for "Endoscope and insertion portion of endoscope including compressed wall portion, and manufacturing method of endoscope" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,784, issued on July 29, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope and insertion portion of endoscope including compressed wall portion, and manufacturing method of endoscope" was invented by Kazushi Ishii (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope includes: a distal end constituting portion including a first hole and a second hole; a treatment instrument channel, a distal end of which is fixed in the first hole; and an adjacent unit, a distal end of which is fixed in the second hole, and is arranged side by side with the treatment instrument channel. The treatment instrument includes a first wall portion for...