ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,942, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).
"Treatment tool and treatment tool assembly method" was invented by Kenji Uesugi (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment tool includes: a pair of grippers configured to grip living tissue, at least one of the pair of grippers being configured in an openable and closable manner; a transmission portion connected to the at least one of the pair of grippers, the transmission portion being configured to move forward and backward along a first direction to open and close the pair of grippers; an operating portion configured to receive user operation for ...