US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 25 for "Robotic surgical assemblies and adapter assemblies thereof" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,246, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotic surgical assemblies and adapter assemblies thereof" was invented by Chi Min Seow (Watertown, Mass.), Jaimeen Kapadia (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Zemlok (Prospect, Conn.) and Mark MacLeod (Brookfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adapter assemblies for connecting an endoscope to a robotic surgical system include a proximal housing, a distal housing, and a drive assembly. The distal housing is rotatable relative to the proximal housing via the drive assembly. A surgical assembly for interconnecting an endoscope and a surgical robotic arm includes a...