ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,102, issued on May 26, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"System for checking instrument state of a surgical robotic arm" was invented by Dwight Meglan (Westwood, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes: a surgical console having a display and a user input device configured to generate a user input and a surgical robotic arm having a surgical instrument configured to treat tissue and being actuatable in response to the user input; and a video camera configured to capture video data that is displayed on the display. The system also includes a control tower coupled to the surgical console an...