US Patent Issued to LivsMed on June 30 for "Surgical tool and assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,380, issued on June 30, was assigned to LivsMed Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Surgical tool and assembly" was invented by Matthew P. Weber (Brighton, Mich.), Zachary R. Zimmerman (Northville, Mich.) and Christopher Paul Huang Shu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical tools and assemblies are employed for use in minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedures. A handheld surgical tool assembly includes a handle assembly and a frame assembly, among other possible components. Intermediate bodies and joints are provided in certain handheld surgical tool assemblies and architectures. A yaw rotational degree of freedom...