US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Nov. 3 for "Robotic surgical system, operator-side apparatus, and control method of robotic surgical system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,696, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system, operator-side apparatus, and control method of robotic surgical system" was invented by Yusuke Takano (Kobe, Japan), Takeshi Kurihara (Kobe, Japan), Masataka Tanabe (Kobe, Japan) and Shinji Kajihara (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a robotic surgical system, a controller is configured or programmed to change at least one of a level of an operation start assisting force, a level of an in-operation assisting force, or a level of a braking force based on a level change operation of an operator received by a level change rec...