US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Nov. 25 for "Robotic surgical system, patient-side apparatus, and control method for robotic surgical system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,443, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system, patient-side apparatus, and control method for robotic surgical system" was invented by Tsuyoshi Tojo (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system includes a controller configured or programmed to perform an arm interference avoidance control to move a second manipulator arm relative to a first manipulator arm such that a reference line moves along an outer edge of an approach prohibited range of a first manipulator arm when a second manipulator arm approaches within the approach prohibited range."

The p...