ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,461, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Surgical drape cooling" was invented by Alec Paul Robertson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Simon Peter DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Kollin Myles Tierling (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Theodore W. Rogers (Alameda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system drape incudes: a sheath having an interior cavity sized to cover a portion of a surgical system manipulator; an adaptor coupled to the sheath and including a manipulator interface and an instrument interface, the manipulator interface configured to couple with a drive interface of the m...