US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 19 for "Sterile interface module for robotic surgical assemblies" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,288, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Sterile interface module for robotic surgical assemblies" was invented by Jaimeen Kapadia (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical assembly includes an instrument drive unit and a sterile interface module for coupling an electromechanical robotic surgical instrument to the instrument drive unit. The sterile interface module is detachable from the instrument drive unit and is equipped with a mechanism that allows for a manual actuation of the surgical instrument."

The patent was filed on Aug. 25, 2020, under Application No. 17/631,705....