US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 16 for "Clip, system, and clip deployment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,544, issued on June 16, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Clip, system, and clip deployment method" was invented by Shogo Shindo (Koganei, Japan), Motoi Satake (Kokubunji, Japan) and Masaru Yuasa (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-arm clip comprising: a central arm; a pair of outer arms configured to rotatably connect to the central arm; a slide pin configured to move along a longitudinal axis direction of the central arm to open or close the pair of outer arms using an outer arm slot defined by the pair of outer arms; a retention feature provided on either the central arm or each one of the...