ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,309, issued on June 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Continuum robot control system and continuum robot control method" was invented by Hidekazu Kose (Tokyo) and Kosuke Fujimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a plurality of tools that are different are inserted into and extracted from a tool channel after a bending portion of a continuum robot has been inserted to an inside of a test body, a control device acquires, for each of the plurality of tools, a maximum value of bending angle at which the tool is capable of passing through a tool channel, sets a smallest of a plurality of the acquired maximum val...