US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 10 for "System and method for checking compatibility of hardware and software components in a surgical robot" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,667, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for checking compatibility of hardware and software components in a surgical robot" was invented by Gregory A. Dierksen (Brookline, Mass.), Paul M. Loschak (Somerville, Mass.) and Edward Bryn Pitt (Southington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a surgical instrument having an instrument memory storing a list having a plurality of identifiers, each of which identifies a compatible software module. The system also includes a main memory having a plurality of stored software modules, each of which includes ins...