US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 22 for "Sterile interface module for robotic surgical assemblies" (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,839, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Sterile interface module for robotic surgical assemblies" was invented by Jaimeen Kapadia (Cambridge, Mass.), Brock Kopp (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Mark H. MacLeod (Southbury, Conn.), Chi Min Seow (Watertown, Mass.) and Michael Zemlok (Prospect, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sterile interface module includes a body member for coupling a surgical instrument to a robotic surgical assembly, a decoupling collar supported on the body member and movable relative to the body member from a first position to a second position, and a drive transfer assembly s...