US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on Sept. 22 for "Method and apparatus for controlling continuum robot" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,369, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for controlling continuum robot" was invented by Kiyoshi Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a bendable body including at least a distal bending portion and a proximal bending portion, a first driving mechanism for bending the distal bending portion, a second driving mechanism for bending the proximal bending portion, a controller that controls the first driving mechanism to bend the distal bending portion and controls the second driving mechanism to bend the proximal bending portion, and a receiving unit...