US Patent Issued to Coviden on July 1 for "Robotically and manually operable uterine manipulators" (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,043, issued on July 1, was assigned to Coviden LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotically and manually operable uterine manipulators" was invented by Scott J. Prior (Branford, Conn.), Zachary Traina (Verona, N.J.), Arvind Rajagopalan Mohan (Dracut, Mass.), Nikolai D. Begg (Wellesley, Mass.) and Kevin R. Slisz (Elkton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A uterine manipulator includes a housing configured to be coupled to an instrument drive unit of a robotic system, a shaft extending distally from the housing, a tip hub pivotably coupled to a distal end portion of the shaft, an articulation disposed within the housing, and a handle operably ...