ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,963, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Support arm device and robot device" was invented by Hiroyuki Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support arm device (20) includes: a parallel link mechanism (21) extending in a plane direction of a first plane; and a connection mechanism (22) connected to the parallel link mechanism (21), in which the parallel link mechanism (21) includes: a support link (L89) that supports, on a distal end side, a surgical tool (T) to be inserted into a body of a patient; an opposing link (L57) facing the support link (L89); a first joint (J5) connected to a first end of ...