US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on July 15 for "Clip unit, medical instrument, and attaching method of medical instrument" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,318, issued on July 15, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Clip unit, medical instrument, and attaching method of medical instrument" was invented by Kensuke Uesaka (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Fujimoto (Tokyo), Shinya Ansai (Tokyo) and Ryu Yorita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument has a capsule; an arm member disposed to protrude from the capsule; an operation wire connected to the arm member; a sheath configured to accommodate the operation wire; and a link configured to connect the sheath with the capsule, wherein the link has an engaging portion including a first surface intersecting with the longitudinal axis; ...