ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,672, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Remote control system, control method for remote control system, and remote control program" was invented by Kentaro Azuma (Kobe, Japan) and Hitoshi Hasunuma (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control system includes: an operator that is operated by a user; a robot that applies a treatment to an object in accordance with an action of the operator; a contact force sensor that is disposed in the robot and detects an operating state of the robot; an imager that captures images of at least one of the robot or the object; a display that displ...