ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,115, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method for smart energy device infrastructure" was invented by David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio), Cameron R. Nott (Fairfield, Ohio), Kevin L. Houser (Springboro, Ohio), Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio) and Verne E. Kreger Jr. (Shohola, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterizing a state of an end effector of an ultrasonic device is disclosed. The ultrasonic device including an electromechanical ultrasonic system defined by a predetermined resonant frequency. The electromechanical ultrasonic sy...