US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 27 for "Setting remote center of motion in surgical robotic system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,288, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Setting remote center of motion in surgical robotic system" was invented by Ulrich Hagn (Munich), Brian A. Rockrohr (Guilford, Conn.), Ranjan Kumar Mishra (Orange, Conn.), Jaimeen V. Kapadia (Cambridge, Mass.), Rainer C. Konietschke (Wessling, Germany) and Paul M. Loschak (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system is configured to control a surgical robotic arm that conforms to the constraints of an incision point without physical constraints, such as a port latch coupling an access port to the robotic arm. The system is also con...