US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER on June 30 for "Full-thickness resection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,349, issued on June 30, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL CANCER CENTER (Tokyo).

"Full-thickness resection method" was invented by Arimasa Sugimoto (Hachioji, Japan) and Satoru Nonaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A full-thickness resection method for a gastrointestinal tract includes forming a pair of first markings in surrounding tissue on both sides of a lesion to sandwich the lesion therebetween; performing a full-thickness resection to a portion including the lesion; identifying a pair of suture locations in the vicinity of the pair of first markings; and suturing the pair of first suture locations."

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