US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 24 for "Methods and applications for flipping an instrument in a teleoperated surgical robotic system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,182, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Methods and applications for flipping an instrument in a teleoperated surgical robotic system" was invented by Max L. Balter (Newton, Mass.), Burak Yilmaz (Upton, Mass.) and William J. Peine (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm having an instrument drive unit and a surgical instrument rotatable by the instrument drive unit about an instrument axis. The system also includes a surgical console including at least one handle controller having a handle ro...