US Patent Issued to ROEN SURGICAL, KAIST on Nov. 11 for "Asymmetric rolling joint device of surgical instrument" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,340, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ROEN SURGICAL INC. (Daejeon, South Korea) and KAIST (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Asymmetric rolling joint device of surgical instrument" was invented by Dong-Soo Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong-Do Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Joon-Hwan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae-Min You (Daejeon, South Korea), Han-Soul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Geol Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ye-sung Yi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dong-Hoon Baek (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an asymmetric rolling joint device of a surgical instrument which increases traction force by asymmetr...