ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,586, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method for adaptive control schemes for surgical network control and interaction" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jason L Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Gregory J. Bakos (Mason, Ohio), Michael J. Vendely (Lebanon, Ohio), Taylor W. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio), Mark S. Zeiner (Mason, Ohio), Jeffrey D. Messerly (Cincinnati) and Hilary A. Reinhardt (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adaptive control of surgical network control and interaction is disclosed. The surgical network includes a surgical feedback system. Th...