US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 26 for "System and method for integrated control of 3D visualization through a surgical robotic system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,096, issued on May 26, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for integrated control of 3D visualization through a surgical robotic system" was invented by Dwight Meglan (Westwood, Mass.), Meir Rosenberg (Newton, Mass.) and Robert W. Pierce (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a control tower, a mobile cart, and a surgical console. The mobile cart is coupled to the control tower and includes a surgical robotic arm. The surgical robotic arm includes a surgical instrument and an image capture device. The surgical instrument is actuatable in response to a user inpu...