US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Nov. 18 for "Treatment tool, method of manufacturing treatment tool, and method of reprocessing treatment tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,984, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Treatment tool, method of manufacturing treatment tool, and method of reprocessing treatment tool" was invented by Daisuke Yanagi (Tokyo), Ojiro Kitamura (Tokyo), Yuki Kawaguchi (Koshu, Japan), Sho Ogawa (Tokyo) and Akira Miyazaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment tool includes: a sheath; a treatment portion that is capable of treating a living tissue and is provided at a distal end of the sheath; a first driver and a second driver that are inserted in the sheath and are capable of driving the treatment portion; and a holder that is inserted in ...