US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 9 for "Robotic surgical system, surgical robot, and robotic surgical method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,565, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robotic surgical system, surgical robot, and robotic surgical method" was invented by Kaoru Takahashi (Kobe, Japan) and Hidenori Tani (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system according to an embodiment may include: a surgical instrument including a pair of jaw members; an operation handle; and a surgical robot that includes a robot arm to which the surgical instrument is attached and which includes a drive part to drive a driven member, and a controller configured to drive the drive part based on a command jaw opening angle ass...