ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,226, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscopic surgical device" was invented by Hiroki Kuriki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic surgical device includes: a sheath; a forceps section protruding from a cover provided at a distal end of the sheath and including a pair of openable-closable forceps components; an operable member that is connected to a proximal end of the forceps section, that opens the forceps components when moved forward in a longitudinal direction, and that closes the forceps components when moved rearward; and a flow-path formation member having a through-hole through whic...