US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 27 for "Surgical data processing associated with multiple system hierarchy levels" (Ohio, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,617, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical data processing associated with multiple system hierarchy levels" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ore.), Aaron Chow (Cincinnati), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati) and Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be described herein associated with data processing associated with multiple system hierarchical levels and compartmentalizing a machine learning algorithm into a plurality of parts. A surgical hub/edge device may obtain surgical data associated with a surgic...