US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Endoscopic treatment device, and usage method thereof" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,888, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY (Hyogo, Japan).

"Endoscopic treatment device, and usage method thereof" was invented by Yoshinori Morita (Takarazuka, Japan), Kunihide Kaji (Hachioji, Japan), Nobuko Matsuo (Hachioji, Japan) and Takuya Okumura (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue traction device includes a first needle connected to a distal end of a first thread; a second needle connected to a distal end of a second thread; an elongated main body connected to the first thread and extending between the first thread and the second thread,...