US Patent Issued to RIVERFIELD on Nov. 3 for "Surgical robot and controller for surgical robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,697, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).

"Surgical robot and controller for surgical robot" was invented by Kotaro Tadano (Tokyo) and Masao Kanazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot includes a master, a master controller, a slave, and a slave controller. The slave controller calculates a slave control value based on a target state and a surgical tool state, the slave control value being for controlling a surgical tool, the target state being a state of the surgical tool based on an operation received by the master, the slave controller controlling the slave based on the slave control value....