ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,110, issued on June 23, was assigned to National Cancer Center (Tokyo) and OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medical stapler" was invented by Arimasa Sugimoto (Hachioji, Japan) and Satoru Nonaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical stapler provided at a distal end of an endoscope includes a wire extending in an axial direction of the endoscope and a staple release part having a cartridge configured to accommodate a staple and an injection mechanism connected to a distal end of the wire and configured to eject the staple from the cartridge. The cartridge is provided so that the cartridge is removably attached to the staple release pa...