US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Jan. 13 for "Surgical robot and method for setting pivot position" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,196, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Surgical robot and method for setting pivot position" was invented by Hiroaki Kitatsuji (Kobe, Japan), Tsuyoshi Tojo (Kobe, Japan) and Yusuke Tanigake (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a surgical robot, a pivot position teaching button is pressed with a tip end of a medical device moved to a position corresponding to an insertion position of a trocar inserted into a body surface of a patient such that a pivot position is stored in a storage."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/239,721.

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