ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,809, issued on Sept. 16.
"Treatment tool for endoscope" was invented by Kiyoaki Homma (Yamagata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment tool for an endoscope includes an elongated cylindrical flexible sheath, an operation wire inserted into a cylinder of the flexible sheath and movable forward and backward in an axial direction within the cylinder by being operated to be pushed and pulled, a treatment unit provided in a distal end of the operation wire and performing treatment of an affected area, an operation unit for operating the operation wire to move forward and backward, and a liquid injection unit arranged between t...