US Patent Issued to LIVSMED on Nov. 4 for "End tool of surgical instrument, and electrocauterization surgical instrument comprising same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,382, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"End tool of surgical instrument, and electrocauterization surgical instrument comprising same" was invented by 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 a surgical instrument for electrocautery, and in particular, a surgical instrument for electrocautery installed on a robot arm or manually operable in order to be used in laparoscopic surgery or other various surgeries."

The patent was filed on Oct. 17, 2024, under Application No. 18...