US Patent Issued to LIVSMED on Sept. 23 for "End tool for surgical instrument and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,660, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"End tool for surgical instrument and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Jung Joo Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Heejin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dongkyu Jang (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Donghoon Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an end tool of a surgical instrument and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly, an end tool of a surgical instrument that may be manually operated to be used in laparoscopic surgery or other various surgery and a method of manufacturing the e...