US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 30 for "Surgical robot and robotic surgical system" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,973, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Surgical robot and robotic surgical system" was invented by Kenichirou Tanimoto (Kobe, Japan), Fumiya Matsumoto (Kobe, Japan) and Tetsuya Nakanishi (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot according to this disclosure includes the joint including an electric motor, a first speed reducer configured to reduce a speed of rotation of the electric motor, and to provide the speed-reduced rotation, a gear part configured to further reduce the speed of the rotation provided from the first speed reducer, and to provide the further-speed...