ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,936, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Machine learning to improve artificial intelligence algorithm iterations" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio) and Demetrius Harris (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may be provided for applying machine learning to a data collection to improve a surgical outcome. The computing system may perform a number of actions. An indication that an operational behavior of a surgical device may be suboptimal may be determined from a data collection that may include one or more biomarkers. A model that may optimiz...