ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,779, issued on July 29, was assigned to SCIVITA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Endoscope structure" was invented by Yi Zhang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of medical devices, particularly an endoscope structure, which consists of a shell, an insertion section and a handheld section on the sides of the shell, the shell consists of a 1st shell and a 2nd shell spliced with each other, both the insertion section and the handheld section can rotate relatively to the shell, a scope tube is arranged inside the insertion section to insert into to-be-observed tissues, a...