US Patent Issued to Medicaroid, Kawasaki Heavy Industries on Feb. 18 for "Medical manipulator and method of controlling the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,113, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Medicaroid Corp. (Kobe, Japan) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Medical manipulator and method of controlling the same" was invented by Makoto Jinno (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Sano (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgery system that includes a multiple-degree freedom slave arm, which is able to be mounted with a surgical instrument and includes a plurality of joints and a plurality of motors corresponding the respective joints of the plurality of joints; a first input device configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a second input device configur...