ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,966, issued on April 7, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoluminal transhepatic access procedure" was invented by Gloria Yee (Westborough, Mass.) and Kunihide Kaji (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for providing an endoluminal transhepatic access to a patient pancreaticobiliary system in an endoscopic procedure are disclosed. An example of a transhepatic access procedure comprises navigating a steerable elongate instrument through a body cavity or channel and exiting to a access site of liver, puncturing the liver from the access site, extending the steerable elongate instrument th...