ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,622, issued on Feb. 10, 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 (Loveland, Ohio), 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 cloud computing system for use with surgical hubs communicatively coupled to surgical instruments in surgical procedures. The cloud computing system includes an input/output inte...