US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 27 for "System and method for training simulation of a surgical robotic system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,387, issued on May 27, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for training simulation of a surgical robotic system" was invented by Max L. Balter (Newton, 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 surgical console and a training simulation console operably coupled to the surgical console. The surgical console includes a display and a user input device configured to generate a user input. The training simulation console includes a memory, a simulator, a master slave controller, and a simulation controller operably coupled to the simulator...