ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,157, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).
"Treatment method and device with ultrasound endoscope" was invented by Tomotaka Hayakawa (Kawaguchi, Japan), Tomofumi Katayama (Kunitachi, Japan), Takahiro Suzuki (Hachioji, Japan), Atsushi Ujino (Hachioji, Japan), Yutaka Yanuma (Tokyo) and Ayano Yamatani (Tama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access device used with an endoscope includes an access pipe configured to be inserted into a sheath of the endoscope, a piercer disposed on a distal end portion of the access pipe and configured to pierce into a hollow organ through a digestive tract of a patient, and a tr...