US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Sept. 8 for "Endoscope system and treatment method endoscopic treatment tool" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,748, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system and treatment method endoscopic treatment tool" was invented by Kenji Murakami (Hino, Japan), Genri Inagaki (Fuchu, Japan), Ryohei Ogawa (Kokubunji, Japan), Hidetoshi Nishimura (Koganei, Japan), Takashi Otawara (Hachioji, Japan), Yuji Sakamoto (Kunitachi, Japan) and Shintaro Inoue (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system includes a direct-view endoscope configured to capture images, a treatment tool configured to be inserted into the endoscope, and a controller comprising hardware, the controller being configured to control ...