US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on March 17 for "Vibration transmission member, ultrasonic treatment instrument, and method of manufacturing vibration transmission member" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,851, issued on March 17, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vibration transmission member, ultrasonic treatment instrument, and method of manufacturing vibration transmission member" was invented by Tsunetaka Akagane (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration transmission member includes a main body, a treatment portion that is provided at the distal end of the main body, a first covering formed of a material that has an electrical insulating property and has a thermal conductivity lower than a thermal conductivity of the main body, which covers a part of a surface of the treatment portion, and a second coverin...