US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Sept. 30 for "Clip unit, clip delivery device, and loading method of clip unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,882, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Clip unit, clip delivery device, and loading method of clip unit" was invented by Shoichiro Kawayoke (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clip unit comprises a clip and a tube. the clip includes a plurality of arms movable between an open position and a closed position. The tube includes a tube main body configured to contain at least a part of the clip, a first wing, and a second wing. The first wing is connected to the tube main body and the second wing is connected to the first wing. The first wing is elastically deformable relative to the t...