US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 1 for "Robotic surgical system, operation apparatus and robotic-surgical-system control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,305, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system, operation apparatus and robotic-surgical-system control method" was invented by Hidenori Tani (Kobe, Japan), Daisuke Yamamoto (Kobe, Japan), Kazuki Kodama (Kobe, Japan) and Takeshi Kurihara (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system according to this disclosure includes a controller configured to control a driver(s) to apply a force in a direction opposite to a direction of operation of an operation unit in a three-axis Cartesian coordinate system having three axes orthogonal to each other."

The patent wa...