US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Nov. 4 for "Clip device and connection method of clip unit and actuator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,362, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Clip device and connection method of clip unit and actuator" was invented by Toshinori Tamura (Hachioji, Japan), Kensuke Uesaka (Hachioji, Japan), Ryu Yorita (Hachioji, Japan) and Yasuyuki Fujimoto (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clip device includes an arm portion including a plurality of arms that are biased to an open state; a pressing tube into which a proximal-end portion of the arm portion is accommodated and configured to be able to lock the arm portion in a closed state; an insertion portion connected to a proximal-end opening of the pressing tube...