ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,647, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Robot system" was invented by Hiroki Kokushi (Kobe, Japan) and Hideyuki Ryu (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a master robot, a plurality of slave robots remotely controlled by the master robot to perform a procedure on a person to be treated, and a switching controller configured or programmed to switch an operational connection between the master robot and each of the plurality of slave robots such that one of the plurality of slave robots is remotely controlled by the master robot."
The patent was filed on April 25, 2...