US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 20 for "Surgical robotic system setup using color coding" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,959, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical robotic system setup using color coding" was invented by Paul M. Loschak (Somerville, Mass.), William J. Peine (Ashland, Mass.), Jaimeen V. Kapadia (Cambridge, Mass.), Dustin C. Eastman (Longmont, Colo.) and Colin H. Murphy (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system having multiple robotic arm carts includes color indicator lights. The same colors are used to represent various elements on a graphical user interface to allow for easy identification and correlation between GUI elements and the robotic arm carts."

The paten...