US Patent Issued to Covidien on March 4 for "Surgical instruments, control assemblies, and surgical systems facilitating manipulation and visualization" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,336, issued on March 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical instruments, control assemblies, and surgical systems facilitating manipulation and visualization" was invented by James D. Allen IV (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a housing, a shaft extending from the housing, an end effector assembly extending from the shaft and configured to rotate and/or articulate relative to the housing, a motor disposed within the housing and operably coupled to the end effector assembly to rotate and/or articulate of the end effector assembly relative to the housing, and a sensin...