US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 16 for "Robotic uterine manipulators with rollable sleeves" (Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,577, issued on June 16, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotic uterine manipulators with rollable sleeves" was invented by Scott J. Prior (Branford, Conn.), Arvind Rajagopalan Mohan (Dracut, Mass.), Nikolai D. Begg (Wellesley, Mass.), Kevin R. Slisz (St. Augustine, Fla.) and Zachary Traina (Verona, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A uterine manipulator includes an elongated shaft, a colpotomy cup supported on the elongated shaft, a distal shaft extending distally from the colpotomy cup to a distal tip, and a rollable sleeve supported on the distal tip."

The patent was filed on July 5, 2023, under Application No....