US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 17 for "Surgical robotic system user interfaces" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,471, issued on June 17, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical robotic system user interfaces" was invented by Max L. Balter (Boston), Diana Chen (Braintree, Mass.), Walter Schoen (Cambridge, Mass.), William J. Peine (Ashland, Mass.) and Jared Farlow (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes: a surgical table; a plurality of movable carts being oriented toward the surgical table, each of which includes a robotic arm, and an alignment unit configured to determine an orientation of the movable cart and the robotic arm relative to the surgical table; and a computer coupled to each ...