US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Aug. 11 for "Treatment device for ablation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,463, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Treatment device for ablation" was invented by Nobuko Matsuo (Hachioji, Japan), Kunihide Kaji (Hachioji, Japan) and Yoshisane Nakamura (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ablation treatment device for ablating treatment procedure used with endoscope device is disclosed. The ablation treatment device is inserted through the endoscope device and protruded into the human body, where the equipped neutral electrode and a gas channel for injecting inert gas is protruded. Together with another gas channel formed on the endoscope device, two types ...