ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,334, issued on March 4.
"Basket-type treatment tool for endoscope" was invented by Makoto Kobayashi (Yokkaichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a basket-type treatment instrument for an endoscope such that wires constituting a basket are not liable to be damaged. A basket-type treatment instrument 1 for an endoscope having a basket part 40 formed such that a plurality of basket wires 41, 42 elastically expand or contract radially, wherein folded-back parts 41a, 42a formed by folding back substantially center portions of the basket wires 41, 42 are hooked to a substantially cylindrical first rib 6b fixed in a perpendic...