US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 14 for "Real-time instrument position identification and tracking" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,238, issued on July 14, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Real-time instrument position identification and tracking" was invented by Olesea Diaz-Chiosa (Naugatuck, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a first robotic arm configured to hold a camera access port and an endoscopic camera inserted therethrough. The system also includes a plurality of secondary robotic arms each of which is configured to hold an instrument access port of a plurality of instrument access ports and a surgical instrument of a plurality of surgical instruments, each of which is configured to be inserted into o...