ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,433, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Treatment instrument" was invented by Tsunetaka Akagane (Hachioji, Japan), Yusuke Takei (Kawasaki, Japan), Kyoko Nozawa (Kunitachi, Japan) and Kazue Tanaka (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment instrument that includes a first grasping member having a first grasping surface and a second grasping member having a second grasping surface. The treatment instrument includes a cover that covers at least a part of a region of at least one of the first and second grasping members other than the first and second grasping surfaces, and a pair of electrodes th...