ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,497, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Adaptive control program updates for surgical hubs" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio) and David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various analytics systems are disclosed. An analytics system is configured to communicably couple to a plurality of surgical hubs that are controlled by control programs. The analytics system includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the analytics system ...