US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Aug. 18 for "Medical manipulator system, controller, and controlling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,247, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Medical manipulator system, controller, and controlling method" was invented by Tatsuya Horiuchi (Sagamihara, Japan), Kosuke Kishi (Mitaka, Japan), Takahiro Komuro (Hachioji, Japan), Yuji Sakaki (Tachikawa, Japan), Michito Matsuoka (Hachioji, Japan), Masao Nichogi (Kouza-gun, Japan), Shu Kambe (Hachioji, Japan), Toshihiro Yoshii (Hachioji, Japan), Shota Sawada (Kokubunji, Japan), Noriaki Yamanaka (Hachioji, Japan), Hiroshi Ashiba (Tokorozawa, Japan), Hiroki Jinnai (Musashino, Japan), Soichiro Koshika (Koganei, Japan) and Ryota Yanagawa (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S....