US Patent Issued to ROEN SURGICAL, KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on April 21 for "Apparatus for locking surgical instrument by using magnetic force" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,224, issued on April 21, was assigned to ROEN SURGICAL INC. (Daejeon, South Korea) and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus for locking surgical instrument by using magnetic force" was invented by Dong-Soo Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Un-Je Yang (Daejeon, South Korea), Duk-Yoo Kong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Duk-Sang Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for locking a surgical instrument by using magnetic force and, more specifically, to an apparatus for locking a surgical instrument by using magnetic force, which instal...