ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,183, issued on March 18, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Multi-joint type surgical device" was invented by Youngjae Song (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: "A multi-joint type surgical device includes a driving part configured to control a pitch rotation of an end tool. The driving part includes a driving part pitch relay pulley formed such that at least a portion of a wire is wound therearound and a driving part pitch satellite pulley that changes a position there...