US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 23 for "System and apparatus for crush prevention for medical robot applications" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,711, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and apparatus for crush prevention for medical robot applications" was invented by Terris Yakimovich (Munich) and Ruben Baerenweiler (Markdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic arm includes a first link and a second link, wherein at least one of the first link or second link is movable relative to each other. The surgical robotic arm also includes a sensor assembly coupled to at least one of the first link or the second link. The sensor assembly includes a force sensing resistor assembly configured to measure force and an interf...