US Patent Issued to LIVSMED on March 31 for "Surgical robot arm" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,488, issued on March 31, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Surgical robot arm" was invented by Youngjae Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung Joo Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Heejin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dongkyu Jang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a robot arm for minimally invasive surgery and a method of controlling the same and is directed to providing a surgical robot arm in which a remote center of motion (RCM) control is implemented through an electronic control so that an overall size of an instrument is reduced and a configuratio...