US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 9 for "Device and method of predicting use instrument, and surgery assisting robot" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,986, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Device and method of predicting use instrument, and surgery assisting robot" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A use instrument predicting device includes a motion recognizing module that recognizes a motion of a surgeon during a surgical operation based on motion detection data that is obtained by detecting the surgeon's motion, a situation recognizing module that recognizes a surgery situation based on the motion recognized result of the motion recognizing module, and a predicting module that predicts at least...