US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on April 22 for "End-point detection method and medical device controller and treatment system with end-point detection, particularly for electrosurgery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,788, issued on April 22, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"End-point detection method and medical device controller and treatment system with end-point detection, particularly for electrosurgery" was invented by Kotaro Nakamura (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a medical device for treating a biological tissue includes controlling the treatment procedure based on the heat capacity of the biological tissue being treated as observed by the medical device. A change in the rate of change of heat capacity from a decreasing rate to an increasing rate or exceeding a maximum thres...