US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Nov. 18 for "Robotic surgical system, operation apparatus and operation apparatus control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,019, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system, operation apparatus and operation apparatus control method" was invented by Kazuki Kodama (Kobe, Japan) and Yusuke Takano (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system according to this disclosure includes a controller configured to control at least one of the first driver and the second driver to maintain a distance between the first operation unit and the second operation unit when a third operation to move the endoscope by the first operation unit and the second operation unit is received."

The patent was...