US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on June 23 for "Treatment system, control device, control method, image determination apparatus, and image determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,140, issued on June 23, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Treatment system, control device, control method, image determination apparatus, and image determination method" was invented by Kenji Matsuki (Hachioji, Japan), Yuto Hirabayashi (Suwa, Japan) and Shunsuke Matsui (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment system includes a treatment tool, an imaging apparatus, and a control device. The treatment tool is configured to perform treatment on a living tissue by applying treatment energy from an end effector to the living tissue based on supplied electric power. The imaging apparatus captures an image of the l...