ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,962, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Medical support robot and medical robot system" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical support robot includes: a storage that houses a medical instrument; at least one robotic arm including a tip including an end effector that handles the medical instrument; a traveling structure that supports the storage and the at least one robotic arm and travels; and circuitry that performs control that may comprising causing the traveling structure to move to a medical robot that is a robot that performs medical pract...