ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,640, issued on June 10, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).
"Medical robot" was invented by Naoya Morita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical robot includes an arm, a controller that controls driving of the arm, a holding body that is connected to the arm at a connection portion and holds a held body, and a selector switch provided on the holding body for selectively switching between a control state in which the driving of the arm is controlled by the controller and a manual state in which control by the controller is released. The controller performs control of switching between the control state and the manual stat...