US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on March 3 for "Robotic surgical system and operator-side apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,462, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system and operator-side apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Ueda (Kobe, Japan), Kazuya Momma (Kobe, Japan), Hiroki Shibata (Kobe, Japan) and Hirotaka Kuno (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operator-side apparatus includes an operation manipulator including an operation unit to receive an operation for a surgical instrument, the operation manipulator being operable to move a robot arm. The operation unit includes a customized switch in which a function to be performed by the customized switch is customized by function setting by...