US Patent Issued to LIVSMED on Sept. 23 for "Robot arm for surgery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,708, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Robot arm for surgery" was invented by Young Jae Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung Joo Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hee Jin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dong Kyu Jang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot arm for minimally invasive surgery includes a modular structure in which a yaw axis of an active arm rotatable relative to a setup arm is disposed to be inclined with respect to a roll axis of an instrument for surgery and a joint of the active arm and a remote center of motion (RCM) form a parallelogram, there...