US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Oct. 14 for "Balloon-equipped treatment tool for endoscope, and method of folding balloon-equipped treatment tool for endoscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,654, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Balloon-equipped treatment tool for endoscope, and method of folding balloon-equipped treatment tool for endoscope" was invented by Kazuhiro Nagata (Tokyo), Kenji Ono (Musashino, Japan), Norichika Fukushima (Hino, Japan), Yasunori Oki (Hachioji, Japan) and Daijiro Kubota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a balloon-equipped treatment tool for an endoscope includes a balloon, and a sheath connected to a proximal end side of the balloon and configured to introduce fluid to the balloon. The balloon includes a body portion having a first wall thic...