ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,939, issued on April 1, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Lesion resection method" was invented by Tatsuya Higuchi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lesion resection method includes a marking step of forming a three-dimensional marking in peripheral tissues of a lesion; a grasping step of grasping the lesion by a grasping forceps; a retracing step of pulling the marking to a hand side of a staple ejection position of a stapler by pulling the grasping forceps grasping the lesion; a ligating step of ejecting a staple from the stapler to ligate the peripheral tissues of the lesion; and a resecting step of resecting...