ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,011, issued on July 1, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Devices, systems, and methods for detecting tissue and foreign objects during a surgical operation" was invented by Zhijun Liu (Mason, Ohio), Christopher J. Waid (Cincinnati), Patrick L. Creamer (New Orleans), Morgan R. Hunter (Cincinnati), Nathan P. K. Nguyen (Austin, Texas), Kevin D. Felder (Cincinnati), James M. McKale (Cincinnati), Jeffrey S. Swayze (West Chester, Ohio), Simon L. Calcutt (London), Elisa J. Barber (Bury St. Edmunds, Great Britain), Matthew K. Sadler (Mildenhall, Great Britain), Richard D. Lintern (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Richardson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rita Stell...