ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,110, issued on May 26, 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 a robot arm, an operation device that is operated by a user to perform an operation of the robot arm, an actuator that supplies a driving force to the robot arm, and hardware control logic or a processor that sets a magnitude of an operation reaction force a direction opposite to an operation direction of the operation device, and applies the operation reaction force having the magnitude set by the reac...