ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,941, issued on March 25, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope clip" was invented by Tomohiro Tsuji (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope clip has a clip unit having an arm member configured from a plurality of arms; an operation wire connected to the arm member and configured to move toward a distal end side to cause the arm member to transition from a closed configuration to an open configuration; and a restrictor, wherein the clip unit applies a biasing force to the operation wire toward the distal end side when the arm member is in the closed configuration, and when the arm member is in the closed config...