ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,224, issued on May 20, was assigned to Gamania Digital Entertainment Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan) and Cathay General Hospital (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Surgical robot" was invented by Po-Yun Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chun-Hung Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Cheng Chien (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yen-Chieh Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot including at least one contact module, a control connection module, at least one first robotic arm, and at least one grip control device. A first transmission member of the control connection module drives the control module through a first transmission connecting member. A first shaft me...