US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Feb. 25 for "Method of using multiple RFID chips with a surgical assembly" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,735, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method of using multiple RFID chips with a surgical assembly" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio) and Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a surgical assembly is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first input from a first RFID scanner indicative of a first information stored in a first RFID chip of a first modular component of the surgical assembly, receiving a second input from a second RFID scanner indicative of a second information stored in ...