US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE on Sept. 8 for "Cutting device, forceps and gripping/cutting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,905, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (Shiga, Japan).

"Cutting device, forceps and gripping/cutting method" was invented by Tohru Tani (Shiga, Japan), Shigeyuki Naka (Shiga, Japan), Atsushi Yamada (Shiga, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Nakakubo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting device including a first contact member and at second contact member assembled so as to be openable and closable, a contact mechanism that rotates the first contact member toward the second contact member to bring the first contact member and the second contact member into contact ...