US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 18 for "Detection of knock-off or counterfeit surgical devices" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,977, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Detection of knock-off or counterfeit surgical devices" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), David C. Yates (Marrow, Ohio) and Aaron Chow (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device, such as a surgical hub, may obtain performance data associated with a device, such as a surgical device in an operation room. Based on the performance data, a computing device may identify a performance signature associated with the surgical device. A computing device may determine whether the surgical device is an original equi...