US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Aug. 18 for "Medical manipulator system and manipulation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,248, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Offic...