ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,116, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Teikyo University (Tokyo).
"Blood vessel harvesting system" was invented by Tsukasa Ikeda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood vessel harvesting system, which harvests blood vessels in a state of being covered by surrounding tissue, includes a separating device and a display device. The separating device includes a rod portion that is inserted into a living body, an optically transparent taper-shaped separating portion that is disposed at a distal end part of the rod portion, an endoscope portion that is disposed inside the rod portion and captures an endoscope image of an interior of ...