US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 4 for "Surgical RFID assemblies for instrument operational setting control" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,455, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical RFID assemblies for instrument operational setting control" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a surgical instrument. The control system includes an RFID scanner and a control circuit coupled to the RFID scanner. The control circuit is configured to receive data from RFID tags associated with devices and/or users, determine a type of the surgical instrument being utilized or surgical procedure being performed according to the received data, and determine an operational ...