ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,965, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system and control method of robotic surgical system" was invented by Tetsuo Ichii (Kobe, Japan), Takahiro Ueno (Kobe, Japan), Takuya Shitaka (Kobe, Japan) and Akinori Igarashi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a robotic surgical system, a control device is configured or programmed to perform first scaling on at least a rotational component in a received operation amount, and calculate a rotation angle of a joint axis of a robot arm by performing an inverse kinematics calculation on a translational component and the rotationa...