ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,475, issued on June 17, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Inverse kinematic control systems for robotic surgical system" was invented by Jiqi Cheng (Cheshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using inverse kinematics to control a robotic system includes receiving an input pose from a user interface to move an arm of the robotic system, calculating a remote center of motion for a desired pose from the input pose in a tool center-point frame, checking when the desire pose needs correction, correcting the desired pose of the arm, and moving the am to the desired pose in response to the input pose. The am o...