ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,254, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical data specialty harmonization for training machine learning models" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati) and Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical computer-implement surgical system may include a surgical computing system (e.g., a surgical hub), one or more surgical data sources in communication with the surgical computing system, a surgical device in communication with the surgical computing system, and a processor. Data gen...