US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for storage and transfer of smart packaging metadata" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,044, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for storage and transfer of smart packaging metadata" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Cincinnati), Jacqueline C. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio), Brian Schings (Maineville, Ohio), Gregory J. Bakos (Mason, Ohio), Jason Rector (Maineville, Ohio) and Matthew D. Cowperthwait (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided. The systems include a manufacturer-sealed sterile surgical packaging containing a surgical instrument configured to be used in a surgical procedure, a graphical display, at least one ...