ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,991, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Point Robotics Medtech Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Surgical tool and identification system for determining usage status of the same" was invented by Kun-Pin Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool and an identification system for determining usage status of the same are provided. The surgical tool includes a rod surgical instrument, a shielding component and an adapter. The rod surgical instrument includes a rod having two ends being an operation end and a joint end, respectively, a first mark is arranged on the rod, the shielding component is movably sl...