US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on May 12 for "Endoscopic treatment tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,572, issued on May 12, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic treatment tool" was invented by Yusuke Shiota (Machida, Japan), Kotaro Yamada (Tachikawa, Japan), Daiki Hagiwara (Hachioji, Japan), Hiromasa Kato (Tokyo) and Chika Miyajima (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope treatment tool, comprising: a sheath; a handle body; a wire; a treatment portion connected to a distal end of the wire and arranged on a distal end side of the sheath; a rotating handle movable with respect to the handle body and connected to the wire; a conductive connector having an insertion passage through which ...