ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,259, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Treatment system and control parameter calculation method" was invented by Masato Narisawa (Hino, Japan), Yuki Kawaguchi (Koshu, Japan) and Tomoyuki Takashino (Fuchu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment system includes a treatment tool and a generator. The treatment tool includes a first grasper configured to apply treatment energy to a living tissue, and a second grasper. The generator includes a power circuit, a detecting circuit configured to detect an index value indicating a treatment state of a test material, and a processor configured to, based on the...