ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,745, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Surgery instrument" was invented by Youngjae Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jaeyeong Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung Joo Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Heejin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dongkyu Jang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an end tool of a surgical instrument, and more particularly, to an end tool of a surgical instrument capable of being mounted on a robot arm or operated manually for use in laparoscopic surgery or various surgeries, the multi-joint type surgical device ...