ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,845, issued on May 19, was assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo), MOTION LIB INC. (Kawasaki, Japan) and TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control system, control device, and control method" was invented by Kouhei Ohnishi (Tokyo), Takahiro Mizoguchi (Kawasaki, Japan), Shin Maki (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Yoshiyuki Habu (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Toshihiro Fujii (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a master device, a slave device, and a control device. Furthermore, the control device includes a tactile force transmission unit and a mode setting unit. The tactile force transmission unit controls tactile ...