US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Feb. 10 for "Ultrasonic treatment tool, vibration transmission member, and method of manufacturing vibration transmission member" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,095, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic treatment tool, vibration transmission member, and method of manufacturing vibration transmission member" was invented by Tsunetaka Akagane (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic treatment tool comprises: a blade including a treatment portion, the treatment portion is configured to treat a treatment target and the blade is configured to transmit an ultrasonic vibration to the treatment portion, a pattern on at least part of an outer surface of the treatment portion, the pattern including a plurality of protrusions, each p...