US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on March 24 for "Tissue closure method, clip device, and operation method of clip device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,408, issued on March 24, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tissue closure method, clip device, and operation method of clip device" was invented by Masaru Yuasa (Hachioji, Japan), Motoi Satake (Kokubunji, Japan), Toshinori Tamura (Hirosaki, Japan) and Shogo Shindo (Koganei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue closure method comprises grasping a first portion of a tissue between a first arm and a central arm, restricting a sliding of a first slider while grasping the first portion, the first slider configured to open and close the first arm relative to the central arm, grasping a second portion of the ...