US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 4 for "Devices and systems for ultrasound guided endoscopic surgical procedures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,187, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Devices and systems for ultrasound guided endoscopic surgical procedures" was invented by Chad A. Pickering (Woburn, Mass.) and Arvind Rajagopalan Mohan (Dracut, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a protective cover, an ultrasound device, and a surgical device. The protective cover includes a body configured to receive at least a portion of an ultrasound device through an open proximal end and into the interior volume of the body. A coupling assembly includes an inner coupler disposed within the interior volume of the body on an interi...