ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,238, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).
"Surgical device" was invented by Kotaro Tadano (Tokyo) and Koki Shindo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device includes a forceps device that performs a bending movement and opening and closing movements of grasping portions of the forceps device, driven portions to which a driving force is transmitted from outside the surgical device, and plural cords, each being fixed to one of the driven portions, the cords transmitting movements of the driven portions to the forceps device. The forceps device performs one or both of the bending movement and the open...