US Patent Issued to Olympus on March 31 for "Treatment tool, treatment tool assembling method, and treatment tool disassembling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,921, issued on March 31, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).

"Treatment tool, treatment tool assembling method, and treatment tool disassembling method" was invented by Ojiro Kitamura (Hachioji, Japan) and Yuki Kawaguchi (Koshu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment tool includes: a sheath extending along a longitudinal axis; a fixed gripping piece protruding from a distal end of the sheath; a movable gripping piece that is movably attached to either the sheath or the fixed gripping piece, the movable gripping piece being configured to grip a living tissue between the movable gripping piece and the fixed gripping piece...