ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,296, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Robot system" was invented by Hiroki Kokushi (Kobe, Japan) and Hideyuki Ryu (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system (100) includes a slave robot (10), a master robot (20) to remotely control the slave robot, and an elbow guide mechanism (40) including an elbow support (41) operable to move to guide an elbow of an operator (O) while supporting the elbow of the operator when the master robot is operated by the operator."
The patent was filed on April 25, 2022, under Application No. 18/556,788.
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