ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,935, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medical treatment tool" was invented by Takashi Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical treatment tool includes: a grasping portion having a first jaw and a second jaw; a plate-shaped blade that is provided in the first jaw and that has a thickness direction; a heater that supplies, to the first blade, thermal energy for treating a tissue grasped by the grasping portion; an energy insulating member that is arranged such that only an output surface of the blade, which comes into contact with the tissue, is exposed and that blocks leakage of the thermal ...