US Patent Issued to Covidien on March 3 for "Robotic surgical instruments" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,457, issued on March 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotic surgical instruments" was invented by Sunny Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Arifmohamad Hamaju Mujawar (Sangli, India), Rajat R. Rokde (Pune, India), Naveen Kanth Nelli (Ambajipeta, India) and Tharageswari V (Erode, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm having an instrument drive unit. The surgical robotic system also includes a surgical instrument that is coupled to the instrument drive unit. The surgical instrument includes a hub assembly with a hub housing and a longitudinal shaft extending from the hub housin...