US Patent Issued to RIVERFIELD on April 7 for "Bearing structure and drape unit including bearing structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,138, issued on April 7, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).

"Bearing structure and drape unit including bearing structure" was invented by Naoya Morita (Tokyo) and Nobuaki Kurihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing structure includes a fixing member attached with respect to an arm of a surgical robot in a state in which a holder that is provided at a distal end of the arm is inserted inside the fixing member, a first drape that covers the arm being attachable to the fixing member, and a rotating member attached with respect to the fixing member in a slidably rotatable manner in a state in which the holder is insert...