ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,946, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Treatment system, control device, and method of operating the treatment system" was invented by Koichiro Watanabe (Higashiyamato, Japan), Kazuma Terayama (Hanno, Japan), Tsuyoshi Yaji (Kawagoe, Japan) and Misato Kobayashi (Tachikawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment system includes: a treatment instrument for cutting living tissue in a liquid; and a controller for performing control, prior to cutting the living tissue with the treatment instrument, to suppress reduced visibility of a treatment area due to turbidity in the liquid caused by the cutting of t...