US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Sept. 8 for "Treatment tool and manipulating method for treatment tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,938, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Treatment tool and manipulating method for treatment tool" was invented by Yutaka Yanuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The treatment tool including: a tube including a lumen extending in a longitudinal axis of the tube; a wire inserted into the lumen and extending along the longitudinal axis of the tube; a first handle connected to a proximal end portion of the wire; a second handle attached to a proximal end portion of the tube. In a first configuration, the first handle is rotatable relative to the second handle about a rotation axis. In a secon...