US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 25 for "Robotic surgical systems and robotic arm carts thereof" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,530, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotic surgical systems and robotic arm carts thereof" was invented by Joseph M. Guerrera (Watertown, Conn.), Shane Reardon (Branford, Conn.) and Noah N. Yang (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical cart for supporting a robotic arm includes a base, a plurality of casters coupled to the base, and a secondary braking mechanism that prevents the casters from being manually moved out of a locked state until a surgical instrument is at a safe distance from an operative site within a patient."

The patent was filed on June 28, 2022, under Applica...