ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,605, issued on May 13, was assigned to LIVSMED INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Surgical instrument" was invented by Joonhee Joh (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung Joo Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Heejin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a surgical instrument, and, specifically, to a surgical instrument which can be manually or automatically operated in order to be used in a laparoscopic surgery or various surgeries, and which comprises a lock device capable of locking or unlocking for at least one motion."
The patent was filed on June 27, 2024, under Application No. 1...