US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 16 for "Surgical robotic system and method for restoring operational state" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,728, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical robotic system and method for restoring operational state" was invented by Saumya Banerjee (Southington, Conn.) and Paul M. Loschak (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a surgical robotic arm having an instrument and an instrument drive unit configured to actuate the instrument. The system also includes a storage device and a controller configured to store a save point on the storage device, the save point including configuration data pertaining to at least one of the surgical robotic arm, the instrument d...