US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 16 for "Robotic surgical instrument including instrument rotation based on translation position" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,154, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotic surgical instrument including instrument rotation based on translation position" was invented by Elizabeth Gayle Shields (Somerville, Mass.), Chi Min Seow (Watertown, Mass.), Jaimeen Kapadia (Cambridge, Mass.), Eric J. Taylor (Southington, Conn.), Richard S. Lech (Hamden, Conn.), Mark Hamilton MacLeod (Middlebury, Conn.), Michael Zemlok (Prospect, Conn.) and Vipul Agarwal (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system includes a surgical instrument defining a first longitudinal axis and a robotic surgical assembly defining a second long...