US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 26 for "Surgical robotic systems including surgical assemblies having a supercapacitor" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,105, issued on May 26, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical robotic systems including surgical assemblies having a supercapacitor" was invented by Ranjan K. Mishra (Orange, Conn.) and Michael Zemlok (Prospect, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical assembly for use with a robotic arm includes an outer housing configured to be selectively coupled to a robotic arm, a power pack disposed within the outer housing, and an electric motor operably coupled to the power pack. The outer housing has a supercapacitor attached to an inner surface of the outer housing. The power pack is configured to non-rotatably coup...