US Patent Issued to Olympus on Aug. 18 for "Perfusion device, perfusion method, and perfusion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,256, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).

"Perfusion device, perfusion method, and perfusion system" was invented by Soichi Ikuma (Akishima, Japan), Eijiro Sato (Hachioji, Japan), Hiroki Kazuno (Koganei, Japan) and Nagahide Sakai (Kodaira, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perfusion device includes an insertion section of an endoscope configured to be insertable inside a subject and including a treatment instrument insertion conduit disposed along a longitudinal axis, and a liquid feeding tube configured to be insertable in the treatment instrument insertion conduit and including an opening at a distal end p...