US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 20 for "System and method for surgical instrument use prediction" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,961, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for surgical instrument use prediction" was invented by Brian A. Rockrohr (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a controller configured to access usage data pertaining to a surgical instrument and to estimate a predicted number of uses remaining for the surgical instrument. The controller is further configured to enable or disable the surgical instrument based on the predicted number of uses remaining."

The patent was filed on July 26, 2022, under Application No. 18/576,145.

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