US Patent Issued to PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL, CHINESE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE on March 17 for "Endoscope control method and surgical robot system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,904, issued on March 17, was assigned to PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL, CHINESE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE (Beijing).

"Endoscope control method and surgical robot system" was invented by Dawei Sun (Beijing), Lan Zhu (Beijing) and Chang Ren (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of medical instruments, disclosing an endoscope control method. The method comprises: controlling a motion of an endoscope, the endoscope comprising a main body, a first imaging unit, a second imaging unit and an end instrument protruding from a distal end of the main body;...