US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on May 5 for "Manipulator arm and patient-side system for surgical system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,360, issued on May 5, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Manipulator arm and patient-side system for surgical system" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan), Toshiaki Yoshida (Kobe, Japan) and Kazunori Suga (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgery manipulator arm according to an embodiment may include an arm body and a translation mechanism provided to a distal end portion of the arm body. The translation mechanism includes: a proximal side unit connected to the distal end portion of the arm body; a distal side unit including a tool holding part to which a surgical tool is attached; a connectio...