ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,765, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Situationally adaptive labeling for smart packaging systems" was invented by Jacqueline C. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio) and Frederick E. Shelton IV (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided. The systems include a manufacturer-sealed sterile surgical packaging containing a surgical instrument, a graphical display disposed on the manufacturer-sealed sterile surgical packaging, a data processor disposed in the surgical packaging, and memory in operable communication with the data processor, the memory storing instructions c...