US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 30 for "Robotic surgical system and method for setting pivot position" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,968, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system and method for setting pivot position" was invented by Ayataka Kobayashi (Kobe, Japan), Tsuyoshi Tojo (Kobe, Japan), Hirofumi Yamamori (Kobe, Japan), Jota Ida (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroaki Kitatsuji (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a robotic surgical system, a controller is configured or programmed to set a temporary pivot position based on an operation on a pivot position setter and store a position adjusted by a predetermined length from the temporary pivot position as a pivot position in a storage."

The patent was fil...