ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,664, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope and manufacturing method for endoscope" was invented by Nobuaki Akui (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope of the present invention includes an endoscope insertion section in which a resin layer is formed in an outer circumference of a net-like pipe made of metal formed along a longitudinal axis and a conductive member, a part of one side edge portion of which pierces through the resin layer and comes into contact with the net-like pipe to conduct electricity, in which at the one side edge portion of the conductive member, a pointed portion...