US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Nov. 4 for "Method for molding thin-walled spiral tube for use with endoscope" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,212, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for molding thin-walled spiral tube for use with endoscope" was invented by Robert E. Ailinger (Norwood, Mass.), David Gately (Maynard, Mass.) and Matthew S. Carlone (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of molding a polymeric device having an elongated tube and a spiral fin. The method including: injecting a liquid resin into a mold space defining the polymeric device, the mold space having an elongated hollow tube molding space and a spiral fin molding space wound around the elongated hollow tube molding space; and providing a longitudinal fl...