US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 9 for "Instrument cassette assemblies for robotic surgical instruments" (British, American, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,003, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Instrument cassette assemblies for robotic surgical instruments" was invented by James A. Boonzaier (Cape Town, South Africa), Jack A. Hornsby (Tempsford, Great Britain), Akshaya Ahuja (St. Neots, Great Britain), Aki Hannu Einari Laakso (Raleigh, N.C.), Hans C. Pflaumer (Apex, N.C.), Rupert A. Barton (Cambridge, Great Britain), Adam R. Turner (Cambridge, Great Britain), Paul Smitheman (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew J. Brady (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument of a robotic surgical system includes an elongated s...