US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Oct. 6 for "Surgical medical instrument and gripping device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,732, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Surgical medical instrument and gripping device" was invented by Toru Aibe (Kobe, Japan), Takeshi Matsuura (Kobe, Japan), Tamami Oryu (Kobe, Japan), Eiji Sato (Kobe, Japan) and Yohei Murase (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical medical instrument (100) includes a first jaw (11) and a second jaw (12) operable to be rotated about a jaw rotation axis (A1) and about a wrist rotation axis (A2) by a first piston (31), a second piston (32), a third piston (33), and a fourth piston (34)."

The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2022, under Application No. ...