ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,159, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Surgical robotic system with motion integration" was invented by Burak Yilmaz (Upton, Mass.) and William J. Peine (Ashland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm having a plurality of joints and a surgical instrument and a surgical console. The surgical console includes one or more handle controllers configured to receive a user input and to provide haptic feedback based on movement of the robotic arm. The surgical console may also include a controller configured to: output a commanded pose based on the user input,...