US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 23 for "Robotic surgical system with single mode and multimode optical communication" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,192, issued on June 23, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotic surgical system with single mode and multimode optical communication" was invented by Lawrence A. Sage (Killingworth, Conn.) and Stephanie A. Mesick (Durham, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a control tower having a first component configured to transmit and receive communication data, a first multimode fiber optic connection, a first single mode fiber optic connection and a first optical bulkhead connector coupled to the multimode fiber optic connection and the single mode fiber optic connection. The system also in...