ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,936, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Method of hub communication" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio), Eitan T. Wiener (Cincinnati), Jeffrey L. Aldridge (Lebanon, Ohio), Jeffrey D. Messerly (Cincinnati), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Tamara S. Widenhouse (Clarksville, Ohio) and Jerome R. Morgan (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a surgical system, comprising surgical hubs configured to be communicatively coupled to surgical instruments in surgical procedures; and a cloud computing system, comprising an input/out...