US Patent Issued to A-TRACTION on Dec. 16 for "Surgery supporting apparatus for controlling motion of robot arm" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,148, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to A-TRACTION INC. (Kashiwa, Japan).

"Surgery supporting apparatus for controlling motion of robot arm" was invented by Keita Awano (Kashiwa, Japan), Takehiro Ando (Kashiwa, Japan), Hiroyuki Miyamoto (Kashiwa, Japan), Yoshihide Sugiura (Kashiwa, Japan) and Yuta Fukushima (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgery supporting apparatus is capable of controlling a posture of a surgical instrument that is inserted into a body cavity and mechanically drivable. The apparatus includes a robot arm that can control the posture of the surgical instrument, which is attached to the robot arm via...