US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 13 for "Usage and technique analysis of surgeon / staff performance against a baseline to optimize device utilization and performance for both current and future procedures" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,674, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Usage and technique analysis of surgeon / staff performance against a baseline to optimize device utilization and performance for both current and future procedures" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio) and Taylor W. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for evaluating a surgical staff are disclosed. A computer system, such as a surgical hub, can be configured to be communicably coupled to a surgical device and a camera. The computer system can be prog...