ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,268, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Treatment system, control device, and control method" was invented by Kenji Matsuki (Hachioji, Japan), Yuto Hirabayashi (Suwa, Japan) and Shunsuke Matsui (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment system that includes a treatment instrument to apply a treatment energy to a living tissue from an end effector according to a supplied electric power to incise the living tissue, an imaging device to generate a captured image capturing a state in which the treatment energy is applied from the end effector to the living tissue, and a control device that includ...