ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,935, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).
"Surgery-assisting device" was invented by Masataka Suzuki (Tokyo), Masao Kanazawa (Tokyo) and Kotaro Tadano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgery-assisting device includes a robot arm that includes plural movable bodies that are operably connected in order in a connecting direction, a surgical instrument connected to a distal end of the robot arm, and one or more actuators that generate a driving force that operates one or more of the movable bodies. The movable bodies include one or more distal-side movable bodies that is provided distally in the connection di...