US Patent Issued to LIVSMED on May 20 for "End tool of surgical instrument, and surgical instrument comprising same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,129, issued on May 20, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"End tool of surgical instrument, and surgical instrument comprising same" was invented by Jaeyeong Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Junghwan Kim (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: "Provided is an end tool of a surgical instrument and a surgical instrument including the same, and more particularly, to an end tool of a surgical instrument that may be mounted on a robotic arm or operable manually to be used in lapar...