ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,806, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Adjustment of a surgical device function based on situational awareness" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio) and David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical devices and surgical systems are disclosed. A surgical system can include a display and a control circuit configured to receive a signal from a situationally-aware surgical hub indicative of a surgical state, display a recommendation on the display based on the signal, and assign a priority level of the recommendatio...