US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Jan. 13 for "Adjustment of a surgical device function based on situational awareness" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,191, issued on Jan. 13, 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: "A system includes a surgical device useable in a sterile field and having a first control circuit to selectively control the surgical device, an actuator communicatively coupled to the first control circuit, and a sterile field display separate from the surgical device. An actuation of the actuator implements a surgical funct...