ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,463, issued on April 8, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Methods for surgical simulation" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati) and Dwight Alan Meglan (Westwood, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive and dynamic surgical simulation system may be used in the context of a computer-implemented interactive surgical system. An operating-room-based surgical data system may aggregate surgical activity data that is indicative of a performance of a live surgical procedure. The surgic...