US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 25 for "System and method for aligning a surgical robotic arm" (Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,104, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and method for aligning a surgical robotic arm" was invented by Sean Casley (Branford, Conn.), Renen Bassik (Lexington, Mass.), Gregory Lanier (Merrimack, N.H.) and Jason Iceman (Cheshire, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes a robotic arm, a surgical cart, a setup arm, and an alignment unit. The setup arm is mounted to the surgical cart and is configured to operatively couple to the robotic arm. The alignment unit is operatively coupled to the setup arm and configured to determine the orientation of the robotic arm relative to a...