US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on May 12 for "Surgical system, processor and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,569, issued on May 12, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surgical system, processor and control method" was invented by Masahiro Fujii (Tokyo), Shiori Yasuda (Koganei, Japan) and Ryohei Ogawa (Kokubunji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes an endoscope including an imager which captures an endoscopic image, a medical manipulator with an injection needle at a distal end section thereof, a drive device which controls the medical manipulator to control a position of the injection needle, and a processor. The processor is configured to: control to inject a target amount of a injection fluid into a syringe...