ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,776, issued on June 24, was assigned to RIVERFIELD INC. (Tokyo).
"Surgical robot" was invented by Masao Kanazawa (Tokyo) and Yasushi Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot for use in endoscopic surgery includes a control device that implements a position information calculator that calculates information relating to a distal end position of the treatment instrument used in endoscopic surgery, and information relating to a distal end position of an endoscope, a first display section that displays a relative positional relationship between the distal end of the treatment instrument and the distal end of the endos...