US Patent Issued to Canon on March 3 for "Apparatus of continuum robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,938, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus of continuum robot" was invented by Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo) and Kiyoshi Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire-driven manipulator including a driver, a first deforming section including a first distal member, a plurality of first guide members, and a plurality of first wires, and a second deforming section provided between the first deforming section and the driver with the second deforming section including a second distal member, a plurality of second guide members, and a plurality of second wires. The plurality of first wires are fixed to the first d...