US Patent Issued to KANAGAWA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KEIO UNIVERSITY on Jan. 20 for "Medical drill controlled based on force tactile sensation and medical storage medium having program stored thereon for controlling medical drill" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,582, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KANAGAWA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Kanagawa, Japan) and KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Medical drill controlled based on force tactile sensation and medical storage medium having program stored thereon for controlling medical drill" was invented by Tomoyuki Shimono (Ebina, Japan), Hiroshi Asai (Ebina, Japan), Kouhei Ohnishi (Kawasaki, Japan), Takuya Matsunaga (Kawasaki, Japan), Hironao Kobayashi (Ebina, Japan), Masaya Nakamura (Tokyo) and Mitsuru Yagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical apparatus includes a treatment mechanism, a slave actuator, an operation control...