US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Oct. 28 for "Adaptive surgical system control according to surgical smoke cloud characteristics" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,592, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Adaptive surgical system control according to surgical smoke cloud characteristics" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various control systems for controlling a surgical system according to detected airborne particulate cloud characteristics are disclosed. The control systems can adaptively control various surgical devices, such as surgical instruments and smoke evacuators, according to the configuration or change in state of a surgical smoke cloud or another aerosol detected at a surgical site."...