ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,156, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method for advanced algorithm support" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Aaron Chow (Cincinnati), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), David C. Yates (Marrow, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Taylor W. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio) and Jacqueline Corrigan Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical computer-implement surgical system may include a surgical computing system (e.g., a surgical hub), one or more surgical data sources in communication with the surgical computing s...