ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,910, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic treatment tool" was invented by Masakazu Ninomiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an endoscopic treatment tool. The base has a guide groove extending in the axial direction and both side walls of the guide groove, and a plurality of positioning engagement portions that can engage the slider concavo-convexly at a plurality of locations in the axial direction. The slider has, inside a cylindrical body of a predetermined length surrounding the base, a wire fixing portion which is slidably guided into the guide groove and to which the proximal end of ...