US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on March 25 for "Overtube, insertion apparatus having overtube attached and detached thereto, and method for attaching overtube to and detaching overtube from insertion apparatus" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,899, issued on March 25, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Overtube, insertion apparatus having overtube attached and detached thereto, and method for attaching overtube to and detaching overtube from insertion apparatus" was invented by Robert E. Ailinger (Norwood, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overtube including: a connector body defining a lumen through which an insertion section of an endoscope is insertable along a longitudinal axis extending through a distal opening and a proximal opening of the lumen; and a connecting mechanism including: a connector movably attached to the connector body, wherein the connecto...