ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,928, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lexington Medical Inc. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Safety control algorithms for surgical devices, including safety control algorithms for surgical stapler devices, and associated systems, devices, and methods" was invented by Andrew Marecki (Wilbraham, Mass.), Leon Amariglio (Lexington, Mass.), Ali Rezaei (Arlington, Mass.), Gilad Nave Frost (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Keren Sagi (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Ilan Krymka (Rosh HaAyin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Safety control algorithms for surgical devices, including safety control algorithms for surgical stapler devices, and associated systems, devi...