US Patent Issued to LivsMed on July 28 for "Detachable surgical tool configured as a finite state machine" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,910, issued on July 28, was assigned to LivsMed Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Detachable surgical tool configured as a finite state machine" was invented by Matthew P. Weber (Brighton, Mich.), Deepak Sharma (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Zachary Zimmerman (Northville, Mich.), Shorya Awtar (Ann Arbor, Mich.), James Duncan Geiger (Ottawa Hills, Ohio), James Michael Licht (Boyne Falls, Mich.), Srinivas Bidare (Novi, Mich.) and Pradeep Akkineni (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many embodiments of a surgical tool are set forth herein that can be employed for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures and in remote acces...