ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,936, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electrode unit, treatment system and method for operating electrode unit" was invented by Kazuya Nakabe (Tokyo), Soichi Ikuma (Tokyo), Nagahide Sakai (Tokyo), Shogo Matsumoto (Chofu, Japan) and Toshifumi Katsuragi (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode unit of the invention includes: an electrode including one end and another end, the other end including a free end; and an electrode supporting portion that supports the one end of the electrode. The electrode is disposed in a second plane that is different from a first plane in which the electrode su...