US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Oct. 6 for "Medical stapler and suturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,716, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical stapler and suturing method" was invented by Takashi Nakamura (Saitama, Japan), Keita Ozawa (Hino, Japan) and Chisato Karasawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical stapler includes a stapling head having a staple ejection portion and having a length in one direction, an anvil openably and closably coupled to the stapling head by a rotation shaft and having a length in one direction, a staple receiving portion provided in the anvil and provided at a position facing the staple ejection portion when the stapling head and the anvil are in a closed state, and...