US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 23 for "Surgical robotic system for controlling wristed instruments" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,234, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical robotic system for controlling wristed instruments" was invented by Brian K. Wells (Killingworth, Conn.), Brian A. Rockrohr (Guilford, Conn.) and Alok Agrawal (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic arm includes an instrument having a plurality of cables that are movable longitudinally and an end effector movable by the cables. The surgical robotic arm also includes a drive unit having a plurality of motors each of which is configured to move one of the cables and a plurality of torque sensors, each of which is configured to ...