ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,434, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).
"Endoscopic treatment device" was invented by Yusuke Shiota (Machida, Japan), Chika Miyajima (Hachioji, Japan), Hiromasa Kato (Tokyo), Kotaro Yamada (Tachikawa, Japan) and Tomohiro Tsuji (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic treatment device includes a sheath formed from a resin; a flow-passage formation member attached to a distal end portion of the sheath to be rotatable around a longitudinal axis of the sheath; a pair of forceps pieces supported by the flow-passage formation member such that the pair of forceps pieces are able to be ...