ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,001, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system and method for controlling robotic surgical system" was invented by Yuichi Mizohata (Kobe, Japan), Ayataka Kobayashi (Kobe, Japan) and Takaki Morimoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This robotic surgical system has a controller that performs the process of displaying, on the display, a graphical user interface overlayed on the image captured by the endoscope, wherein the graphical user interface includes a correctable range indication indicating a pivot correctable range that is set based on the pivot position stored...