US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 7 for "Surgical robotic systems and robotic arm carts thereof" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,699, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical robotic systems and robotic arm carts thereof" was invented by Ulrich Hagn (Munich), Jason T. Iceman (Cheshire, Conn.), Shane Reardon (Branford, Conn.) and Noah N. Yang (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm cart for supporting a robotic arm, and a docking station configured to be secured to an operating room floor around a surgical table. The robotic arm cart has a plurality of legs having wheels for facilitating movement of the robotic arm cart along the floor of the operating room. The robotic ...