ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,601, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zeon Corp. (Tokyo).
"Indwelling clip" was invented by Tatsurou Sugitani (Tokyo), Hikaru Mizuno (Tokyo) and Masakazu Ninomiya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indwelling clip includes a pair of arm plate portions that can be opened in a substantially V shape with an elastic force and claw portions formed on respective tip portions of the arm plate portions. The indwelling clip also includes a fastening ring attached to the arm plate portions so as to be movable along a longitudinal direction of the pair of arm plate portions and be able to close the pair of arm plate portions by moving in ...