US Patent Issued to LIVSMED on July 28 for "Surgical instrument and method and device for controlling its posture" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,864, issued on July 28, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Surgical instrument and method and device for controlling its posture" was invented by Woo Jung Choi (Siheung-si, South Korea) and Jin Hyuk Yoon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a surgical instrument and a method and device for controlling the posture thereof, a manipulation value according to user input to change a posture of an end tool included in the surgical instrument may be obtained, first posture information about a current posture of the end tool at the time of obtaining the user input may be obtained, and a...