US Patent Issued to RIVERFIELD on July 14 for "Surgical robot and controller of surgical robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,246, issued on July 14, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).

"Surgical robot and controller of surgical robot" was invented by Masao Kanazawa (Tokyo) and Yasushi Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot includes an operation part that includes a movable part moved by a force applied by an operation by a user, an action part that performs an action according to the operation, a drive part that supplies a driving force to the action part, an operation controller that controls a movement of the movable part, and a controller that implements an operation force setter that sets a magnitude of a resistance force th...