ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,643, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).

"Surgical instrument holding device and surgical assistance device" was invented by Yoshihiro Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument holding device includes first and second parallel links, a wiring member and a connector. The first parallel link has two first link portions arranged in parallel with each other, each having one end in an axial direction as a first end portion. The second parallel link has two second link portions arranged in parallel with each other, each having one end in an axial direction as a second end portion. The wiri...