ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,437, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical proceduralization via modular energy system" was invented by Eitan T. Wiener (Loveland, Ohio), Brendan J. Oberkircher (Cincinnati), Megan A. Broderick (Mason, Ohio), Ryan M. Asher (Cincinnati), Leonardo N. Rossoni (Rahway, N.J.), Amanda R. Stautberg (Cincinnati), Jacob S. Childs (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Molly M F Petre (Cincinnati), Lucas B. Elmer (Cincinnati), Stephen M. Leuck (Milford, Ohio), Kristen G. Denzinger (Cincinnati) and James M. Vachon (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and devices for surgica...