US Patent Issued to JOKOH, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Seiko Packing on Oct. 20 for "Endoscopic treatment portion traction member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,906, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JOKOH Co. LTD. (Tokyo), St. Marianna University School of Medicine (Kawasaki, Japan) and Seiko Packing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic treatment portion traction member" was invented by Yasumasa Matsuo (Kawasaki, Japan), Shuumei Hirai (Tokyo) and Hironobu Minai (Kawasakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic treatment portion traction member is gripped by forceps to be inserted into an endoscope and then inserted into a body, and is fixed to a tissue to be resected and pulls the tissue from a surrounding tissue. The endoscopic treatment portion traction member includes: an annular ...