US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 2 for "System of operating surgical robotic systems with access ports of varying length" (Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,613, issued on June 2, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System of operating surgical robotic systems with access ports of varying length" was invented by Andrew W. Zeccola (Salem, Mass.), Jared N. Farlow (Los Angeles), Jaimeen V. Kapadia (Cambridge, Mass.), Paul M. Loschak (Somerville, Mass.), Alok Agrawal (New Haven, Conn.), Gregory A. Dierksen (Arlington, Mass.), Sanjay Jonnavithula (New York) and Colin H. Murphy (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system is configured to enable user confirmation of whether one or more access ports are standard or longer length (e.g., bariatric type ac...