ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,121, issued on March 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Treatment device" was invented by Naoki Takizawa (Hirosaki, Japan) and Motoi Satake (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment device has an arm member having a plurality of arms to have an open state and a closed state; a wire having a distal end connected to the arm member and the distal end is attachable and detachable to the arm member; a sheath through which the wire is inserted; an operator connected to a proximal end of the sheath; a slider connected to the wire and attached to the operator to be slidable toward a distal end or a proximal end of the opera...