US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Jan. 28 for "Surgical systems correlating visualization data and powered surgical instrument data" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,881, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical systems correlating visualization data and powered surgical instrument data" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Chad E. Eckert (Terrace Park, Ohio) and Sarah A. Worthington (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system for use in a surgical procedure is disclosed. The surgical system includes a surgical instrument including an end effector configured to treat tissue at a surgical field during the surgical procedure, a surgical visualization system configured to track th...