US Patent Issued to LIVSMED on Sept. 16 for "End tool of surgical instrument and surgical instrument including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,788, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"End tool of surgical instrument and surgical instrument including the same" was invented by Jung Joo Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hee Jin Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Kyu Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, provided is a surgical instrument in which an actual motion of bending an end tool or performing a surgical treatment intuitively matches a motion of a manipulation portion corresponding thereto. In detail, to this end, provided are an end tool having various degrees of freedom, a manip...