US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 25 for "Surgical robotic system with access port storage" (New York, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,098, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical robotic system with access port storage" was invented by Kevin R. Fogarty (New York), Andrew W. Zeccola (Allston, Mass.), Jared N. Farlow (Los Angeles) and Zachary T. Morgan (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm having an instrument drive unit and an access port configured to be secured to the robotic arm. The system also includes an instrument configured to couple to the instrument drive unit, where the instrument drive unit is configured to actuate the instrument. The system also includes a controller ...